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Samuel Beckett wants you to have a less bad day.

The sooner Eurocrats dispense with their calls for more economic centralization, the better off we’ll all be.

After months of political upheaval and chaos in the bond markets, few investors believe austerity programs are a route to growth and debt reduction.

The Irish government can bend for a British monarch, it seems, but it cannot apply the same rigid discipline to tax cheats and reckless investors.

With the Arab world's pro-democracy uprisings comes a resurgence for the "humanitarian hawks."

Orhan Pamuk may be the face that Turkish literature turns to the West, but the novelist Yashar Kemal is its conscience and heart.

A seaside community's battle to prevent a gas pipeline from ruining fragile coast and bog lands enters its tenth year.

As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, the likeliness of violence increases.

The global economic crisis hits Britain harder than any other developed country. Is it too big to fail?

A heated exchange of views on Lakshmi Chaudhry's slam of Harry Potter and a more civilized exchange between Jonathan Schell and Peace Action's Kevin Martin on nuclear proliferation.