Germany’s response to the July 2026 attack in Berlin illustrates a gap between identifying a terrorism threat and taking effective preventive action, according to an analysis published in the latest issue of
by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
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by Nil Rory Cormac’s Fakers is not merely a history of British covert propaganda. It is an anatomy of a state learning to weaponise uncertainty. Its most unsettling achievement is to show
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by Durga Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what
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by Luxman Laura K. Field’s Furious Minds is an ambitious and often unsettling attempt to explain not merely what the MAGA New Right believes, but how a movement once dismissed as a
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An August 1931 encounter in Rome left Heinrich Brüning, Germany’s chancellor, visibly dispirited. According to Erwin Planck, an Oberregierungsrat in the Reich Chancellery, the impression made on Brüning by Benito Mussolini was
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In 1993, James Carville, a senior adviser to US President Bill Clinton, made an unusual wish. If he were reincarnated, he said, he would rather return as the bond market than as
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The Panama Canal has long been one of the world’s most important shortcuts for global commerce. Now it is facing a disruption that has little to do with war, tariffs or geopolitics
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by Luxman Aravind Sri Lanka’s latest controversy over Chabad Houses has become something far more revealing than a dispute over a religious centre in a tourist town. It is becoming a case
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The warning comes as tensions between the Ethiopian Government’s National Defense Force (ENDF) and the ethno-nationalist Tigray’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have escalated in recent weeks, with a drone strike on the city
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The White House personnel report lists Natalie Harp as a special assistant and personal aide to the US president, with an annual salary of $150,000. On paper, it is a significant position.
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A debt crisis may not be imminent in the United States, but one of the world’s most prominent economists believes the country is becoming dangerously less prepared for the next major shock.
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Fears of a military confrontation between Israel and Turkey are growing after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered air strikes on the Abu Al-Duhur airbase in northwest Idlib province, close to the
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A fleet of Chinese J-16 fighters has arrived in Egypt for the Eagles of Civilisation 2026 exercise, marking the aircraft’s first-ever deployment to Africa and providing a significant test of the People’s
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For centuries, the Arctic was less a highway than a barrier. European explorers searched for a northern maritime passage to Asia from the 1500s onwards, repeatedly confronting ice, distance and extreme conditions.
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Qatar has slashed government department budgets by up to 30 per cent and cut funding for overseas aid by about 85 per cent as the US-Israel war against Iran inflicts a sharp
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