It is Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving when shops offer huge discounts to shoppers who are ready to face their Christmas shopping. A few years ago, those of us in the UK or Australia didn’t...
Russia-backed Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic on the one hand, and the Western-backed Ukraine on the other hand, keep simulating the peaceful settlement of the Donbass...
In rapid succession, Donald Trump has pardoned a turkey and a war criminal, and the turkey clearly got the better bargain. No one wants anything in return from the turkey. Nobody’s saying it should...
General Election campaigning is in full swing in the UK at the moment. There are leaflets through postboxes, knocks on the door at inopportune moments and endless TV and radio coverage. Every...
Welcome back to our weekly round-up of the long reads on the web that are worth the investment. If you want to make sure you don’t miss future Global Comment content, don’t forget to sign up to...
We all spend much of our time buried in our phones, keeping up with what social media has to offer. But the good stuff can get lost in the mix. So, we wanted to share with you some of the better...
Kevin Albertson, Manchester Metropolitan University The UK Labour Party says it intends to nationalise a number of key public services. The full plans are not yet released but there has been talk of...
The reality of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the United States is reflected in the story of eight families in Netflix's new documentary, Living Undocumented. It tries to show that this is...
As someone who has been exploring the world’s most isolated wilderness regions for nearly half a century, I have some insight into the state of the planet and the human race’s current...
Turkey’s latest incursion into Syria is the latest part of a broader strategy Ankara has been implementing in northern Syria. This strategy is one of incrementally dividing and invading Syria’s...
