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Prime Minister Theresa May addressing the House of Commons today after rejection of the UK-EU withdrawal agreement.
At the end of an extraordinary week that began with rumors of a “cabinet coup” against Prime Minister Theresa May, featured a novel experiment in “indicative voting” to ascertain the preferences of...
Pilar Velasco is a Spanish journalist currently working at Cadena SER (Prisa Group), the radio network leader in Spain. Specializing in investigative and data journalism, she has exposed political...
A promotional still from “In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America.”
Maurice Fitzpatrick, director of “In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America,” will discuss the film the film following its screening on Wednesday, March 27, during his visit to campus as a Poynter...
The Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) of the European Studies Council held its Annual Conference in Russian Studies at Yale, titled “The Russian Corporation,” on Friday...
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk at their press conference after yesterday’s European Council meeting
Last week, after the British House of Commons rejected for a second time the withdrawal agreement and framework for the future relationship negotiated with the European Union and also rejected...
Pericles Lewis (second from right) visits with students and instructors at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa.
While traveling in Africa over spring break, Pericles Lewis, vice president for global strategy and deputy provost for international affairs, visited the African Leadership Academy (ALA) campus in...
Edyta Bojanowska
Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov is best known today for his 1859 novel “Oblomov,” an inventive satire of the waning Russian nobility, embodied in its title character, who is so sedentary and slothful...
Paul Bracken is a professor of management and political science.
The article below written by Paul Bracken, professor of management and political science at Yale University, appeared in The Hill on  March 19: The failed “denuclearization” summit held in Hanoi...
Hannah-Rose Murray, Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nottingham
The following podcast is featured on “Slavery and Its Legacies,” a series produced by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center: Dr. Hannah...
British House of Commons Speaker John Bercow ruling today that the House can’t vote a third time on the UK-EU withdrawal agreement.
The widespread view among the Brexit commentariat – and European Union officials – has been that, while everyone knows what the British Parliament doesn’t want, no one knows what it does want. After...
A panel of speakers discussed the political significance of Afghanistan’s archaeological heritage at an event entitled “Culture, Conservation and Meaning: The Politics of Heritage in Afghanistan” on...
Top row, left to right: Danielle McLaughlin, David Chariandy, Ishion Hutchinson, Rebecca Solnit. Bottom row: Kwame Dawes, Patricia Cornelius, Raghu Karnad, Young Jean Lee.
Yale University today announced the 2019 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight writers, honored for their literary achievement or promise, will receive $165,000 each to support their...