Editorial As voting entered its most consequential moment, Donald Trump may have recognised the political damage awaiting his party. On Election Day, he announced that the United States would end its annual
Iran has launched a nationwide civilian mobilisation campaign combining military training, emergency preparedness and financial incentives as the country faces a prolonged conflict with the United States, worsening economic hardship and renewed
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Israel’s approaching parliamentary election on 27 October has intensified an increasingly personal debate among liberal Israelis about whether the country remains a place where they can live, work and raise their children.
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Governor Greg Gianforte’s visit to Sri Lanka promises expanded trade, critical-mineral cooperation and stronger security ties. Yet Montana’s history of Indigenous massacres, starvation and dispossession offers a sobering reminder that progress and
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More than 10,000 people liked an Iranian user’s post on X in early September describing how international sanctions had unexpectedly affected his attempt to seek help during a personal crisis. The user
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Navi Pillay’s 2026 Nobel Peace Prize celebrates a lifetime of challenging impunity and defending human dignity. Yet her legacy also raises difficult questions about accountability, political power and the credibility of international
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Michel Foucault’s examination of how medical, legal and social institutions classify human bodies is returning to public debate with the publication of an unpublished text, The Hermaphrodites, as the French philosopher’s centenary
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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
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Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has become a focal point of renewed political tensions after former Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen visited the United States and delivered a speech at Stanford University highlighting the island’s
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The Central Intelligence Agency coordinated the covert distribution of Western books to readers across the communist bloc for more than three decades, supplying everything from George Orwell’s political fiction to Agatha Christie’s
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The speech argues that ancient Greece gave the West far more than democracy, philosophy and political institutions: it bequeathed a distinctive ideal of human excellence, intellectual curiosity, courage, competition and national loyalty.
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Rachel Goldberg-Polin does not describe grief as a process that steadily diminishes with time. Since the death of her son Hersh, who was abducted by Hamas and killed after 328 days in
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China has established a new military facility in Laos, expanding its overseas military footprint into a country where Beijing has historically competed for influence with Vietnam. The China-Laos Joint Support and Training
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Irina Scherbakova, the Russian historian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent decades documenting the crimes of Stalinism, says she has become “incredibly disappointed” with international institutions, including the United Nations and
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At least 280,000 people are missing in the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to the list maintained by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The figure includes both Ukrainians
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The Middle East is entering a period in which established assumptions about power and security may no longer hold, according to British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, whose new book, El hervidero. Historia
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