Extracted from "Life Cycles" (reviewed here), in which Julian, racing around the world on his bike, accepts the hospitality of the bayou-dwelling Lemoine family, and confronts the contradictions of their generosity and their racism
A somewhat bleak survey of American democratic prospects for this American Independence Day begins by reminding us what America was meant to be all about.
Israel hopes that any Islamist extremists planning to infiltrate its borders will come up against a brick wall.
The US's failure to destroy the remnants of Iraq's chemical weapons stock, along with many others, haunts as ISIS continues its advance - now with access to this dangerous and unstable arsenal.
In a dramatic turn of events last week, the US Supreme Court overturned a 2007 law that separated and protected women who sought abortions and health care from the zealots who intimated and threatened them.
Today's Sunday Comic urges us to be aware of the deception inherent in state lotteries.
As violence in Iraq threatens to overshadow nuclear talks between the US and Iran, we must avoid the tendency to rely on simplistic binaries, and instead recognize the linkages between these challenging dynamics to encourage cooperation.
It is surely not overly pessimistic to anticipate tension between Kurd and Sunni Arab in the months and years to come, almost regardless of the outcome of the current fighting. But Kurds are looking like much the best sort of neighbour in this desperate region.
Internally, Sistani’s words directly addressed the fractured Iraqi political class. They are helping reunite Iraq’s dithering Shi’a factions under the strategic priority of fighting terrorism, and boosting moderate Sunnis.
Our Sunday Comics author takes a look at Louisiana's Reality TV boom and the state governor embracing it.
Twenty years after the United Nations declared violence against women to be a violation of their human rights, we are still a long way from gender violence becoming unacceptable in a society
Thousands of soldiers, mostly women, have been the victims of rape and sexual assault in the American military. Politicians and the Pentagon are worried about the growing epidemic of this behaviour. All twenty women Senators decided “enough was enough”
