Vladimir Lenin once said, “there are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” The latter certainly...
The election victory of Giorgia Meloni in Italy has left journalists scrambling around for adjectives. Is her Brothers of Italy...
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, September 13, Azerbaijan launched an aggressive military assault along the borders of the...
It turns out that many of today’s billionaires are selfish, lonely men fantasizing about how they will survive the end...
An American influencer on holiday in South Africa recently posted a viral video highlighting traveler misconceptions about Africa. In the...
There are many grand promises about the power of artificial intelligence. When we talk about the future of technology, AI...
In June 2021, as students and teachers were finishing up a difficult school year, Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook founder...
British and European regulators threatened to crack down on Google and Facebook parent Meta over an agreement for online display...
The US tech giant is reportedly now permitting posts on its platforms that call for the killing of Russian soldiers...
One species has transformed into a material backdrop for its tribulations the 10 million other species that constitute its extended...
Despite its negative connotation, “cancel culture” – ostracizing someone for their harmful views – has had a big impact on addressing...
In November 2021, a French military convoy was making its way to Mali while passing through Burkina Faso and Niger. It did not get very far....
October 16 marks 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis — the 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union widely regarded as the...
It’s been a busy few weeks for Iran-related headlines: domestic turmoil triggered by the death of a Kurdish woman while in custody for allegedly violating rules on wearing...
Since the Syrian uprising erupted more than a decade ago, tens of thousands of Syrians have simply vanished. Protestors arrested at checkpoints, men and women taken...
Held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from September 15 to 16, the 2022 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Heads of State Council demonstrated that the SCO...
As Europe prepares for a winter without Russian gas, the Kremlin is looking to move its natural gas sales farther to the east. Although China and...
In recent years, a seemingly endless stream of conferences, workshops, and studies have been conducted to answer a key question for countries in the Middle East...
Recently I have been reading comments on social media, asking why I’ve written to Mrs Olena Zelenska but not Mr Vladimir Putin? Very good question, I’m...
A cycle of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and—despite the pandemic—has carried on since then. The core reason for the protest in 2018 was...
The average human body contains some 7 octillion electrons (that’s 27 zeroes) that weigh, altogether, just 19 grams. These tiny particles should be able to cross borders more...
On August 29, eight cartons of notarized paperwork challenging 25,000 voter registrations were delivered by pro-Donald Trump “election integrity” activists to Gwinnett County’s election offices in...
Few other companies have been so closely associated with environmental causes than Patagonia. When the company announced this month that it would donate all its profits...
In his latest broadside in the Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Meade takes aim at a body that most Americans have never heard of – the...
A defining image across Asia over the past few decades has been the construction crane looming over a horizon of tall, box-style buildings, the air speckled...
It’s been a busy few weeks for Iran-related headlines: domestic turmoil triggered by the death of a Kurdish woman while in custody...
Since the Syrian uprising erupted more than a decade ago, tens of thousands of Syrians have simply vanished. Protestors arrested...
In recent years, a seemingly endless stream of conferences, workshops, and studies have been conducted to answer a key question...
Since the start of the year, hundreds of Syrian civil servants have reportedly resigned from their jobs, angered over meager...
Ten months after Iraq’s pro-Iran bloc was soundly defeated in Iraqi parliamentary elections, and less than a week after Shia...
Recently I have been reading comments on social media, asking why I’ve written to Mrs Olena Zelenska but not Mr...
Dear Mrs Zelenska, My heart bleeds for you and all the Ukrainian and Russian families, devastated by the terrible war...
Bob Dylan has a new book coming out this fall, a collection of more than 60 essays about songs and...
