A few weeks ago, reports emerged that North Korea had publicly executed around 80 people. Their crime; watching South Korean film and television shows. In a nation where public executions are not unknown, and punishments for mi...
This autumn, millions of Americans will descend upon polling stations to elect their federal representatives in the Houses of Congress. The Senate will see one third of its members vie to keep their seat, facing a challenger wi...
In 2013, US President Barack Obama and the Cuban leader, Raul Castro, shook hands at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Johannesburg, and it took the world by surprise. After five decades of separation, it appeared somethin...
In 2004, the BBC released filmmaker Adam Curtis’s documentary, The Power of Nightmares. In its three episodes, he carefully and convincingly made the case for the threat of international terrorism being greatly exaggerated; I...
The recent implementation of Obama’s healthcare law has been aptly omnipresent in the American media sphere. The flawed rollout has seen millions of people lose their insurance coverage, problems with signing up on the websit...
Whilst almost every sovereign state has, to some degree, embraced the progress of the 21st century, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), by its own volition, has isolated itself from the rest.