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Michele Wucker: Citizenship and the Veil
In the uproar over France's denial of Faiza Mabchour’s citizenship application over her wearing of the niqab, many commentators have found it easy to condemn France for being...
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K. A. Dilday: All Quiet on the Western Front?
As always, summer in Western Europe is a quiet time. People tend to take much of the European Union mandated four weeks (at minimum) of paid work leave during August. Official discussions about...
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Shaun Randol: The Rise of China’s Human Flesh Search Engine
One of the many reasons Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games was that, it was hoped, a massive influx of international visitors—journalists in tow—would help push the central government to lessen...
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Swadesh M. Rana: Guantánamo's Detainees — Diplomatic Quagmire or Security Risk?
America's European partners in its war on terror are not committing on when or whether to take in any detainees from Guantánamo. "There was nobody very hot about this, that's perfectly true," said...
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THE INDEX - June 15, 2010
Lede: Even in prisons, the drug violence in Mexico continues. In a number of incidents, 29 inmates were killed this week in attacks relating to drug gangs, and in two separate incidents 13 police...
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