Afghanistan was admitted as a member, and observer status was granted to China, Japan, the EU, South Korea, and the US.

Counterfire writers recommend their favourites from this year with a mixture of the new, the classic, fiction and analysis ...

An ever increasing share of the world’s population is living in what are known as megaregions—clusters of interconnected cities. The concept of the megaregion is decades old and fairly easy to grasp, ...