The Canadian poet’s fusion of classical scholarship, experimental poetry, essays and performance has created new forms of contemporary literature, drawing international audiences to work that questions established ideas about language, identity and
Slavoj Žižek dreams in patterns of confusion, delay, and bureaucratic frustration. In one recurring sequence, he is attempting to meet a friend, but nothing aligns correctly. Addresses are wrong, communication fails, and
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Nine months after Donald Trump declared Iran’s nuclear program “obliterated,” the fragile balance between Washington and Tehran is once again nearing a breaking point. Following last year’s 12-day conflict between Israel and
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by Durga What unfolded in Parliament yesterday evening was not democracy in action but power laid bare—raw, unapologetic, and utterly indifferent to accountability. The crushing defeat of the no-confidence motion against Energy
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Editorial The language of peace, when deployed by states long entangled in cycles of militarisation and geopolitical opportunism, often invites not admiration but scrutiny. Pakistan’s latest overtures towards peace, accompanied by the
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The United States has agreed with Iran to cease hostilities for two weeks. The illegal US and Israeli imposed war has not ended but has a break, although not in Lebanon which
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In a dramatic rescue mission last week, a U.S. weapons systems officer, publicly known as ‘Dude 44 Bravo,’ survived two days in southern Iran after his F-15 jet was shot down. According
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by Durga Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s Trump’s Ten Commandments arrives with the air of a field manual masquerading as analysis, a taxonomy of power distilled into ten stark “rules” that purport to decode Donald
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Shariati and Fanon The intellectual relationship between Shariati and Frantz Fanon is one of the most fertile and least studied of the twentieth century. Shariati did not merely admire Fanon; he
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Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, operated a central European hub of his network in Paris, according to an investigation by Die Zeit. The German newspaper examined recently published
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What began in the 1960s as a cooperative medical initiative has evolved into a critical source of revenue for the Cuban government, according to a report by the Inter-American Commission on Human
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Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan, has sounded a stark warning about the growing risks in private credit, signaling that the industry may be far more vulnerable than investors realize. In
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Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, is reportedly unconscious and receiving medical treatment in the holy city of Qom, according to a diplomatic memo seen by Times UK. The document, understood
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A Russian cryptocurrency network under Western sanctions is seeking to establish a presence in Africa, reflecting Moscow’s broader efforts to circumvent international restrictions and extend its influence across the continent, according to
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If you went to school any time after the Nixon administration, you likely encountered the CIA World Factbook, a meticulously compiled reference guide to the world’s countries, populations, militaries, and customs. Some
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by Durga Velayudham The recent crescendo of fanfare surrounding NASA’s Artemis II mission exposes something far more elemental than a scientific milestone: it reveals a psychological fissure in America’s strategic identity. As four astronauts
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