What is going on in the United States? Why the first government shutdown in nearly two decades? Kay Dilday sits down with Colin Greer to trace the origins of the current crisis.
Was Michael Jackson the most famous man on the planet? The British former child actor, Mark Lester, claimed that in one of the many encomiums offered following the news of
In the wake of Obama's victory, KA Dilday begins to digest an unprecedented result. Catch up with the earlier segments of her conversation wtih Anthony Barnett: part 1,
KA Dilday & Anthony Barnett's email discussion of Barack Obama's role in shaping the future
In the third portion of her exchange with Anthony Barnett, KA Dilday argues that majority-minority dynamics in the US would make an Obama presidency unique and incomparable to the rise
George W Bush's daughter was married this month by the same minister who delivered the inaugural prayer for Bush in 2000 and 2004. He is Kirbyjon Caldwell, a
I'M black again. I was black in Mississippi in the 1970s but sometime
in the 1980s I became African-American, with a brief pause at
Afro-American. Someone, I think
In December 2007, the Moroccan court of justice sentenced six men to jail terms of between two and ten months for the crime of homosexuality. The men had been filmed
For several days this winter I was in a French hospital, in a small clinic on the southern edge of Paris. Like most of Paris's outer neighbourhoods it
I remember when my IQ was first tested - I was 12 years old. A teacher had selected a few of us (of all racial backgrounds) to apply to a
In Sweden, integration minister Nyamko Sabuni, a naturalised citizen of Congolese-Burundian origin, ardently insists on intrusive measures to ensure that Muslims adhere to Sweden's laws.
In the Netherlands,
I was born in the United States and I vote for several reasons, not least because many people died so that I could vote. In the 1970s when I moved
