Washington’s attempts to impose a U.S.-style democracy on countries like Iraq and Libya using primarily military means have been a “spectacular” failure. These countries are now left in a state of limbo
How does a state come to justify the movement of warplanes over civilian cities as a matter of necessity rather than catastrophe? At what point does strategic language begin to absorb human
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Adela Cortina, one of Spain’s most influential contemporary thinkers and a key voice in European ethics, has offered a stark yet measured diagnosis of the country’s evolution over the past 50 years.
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The Spanish writer Elvira Lindo has returned to the years she once spent moving between Madrid and New York, reflecting on a turbulent period that now reads, in her view, like an
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Two years after the death of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Yulia Navalnaya says she still hears her husband’s voice. It is not only a memory but a guiding force, shaping her
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“What we are seeing is the redistribution of the ways that they funnel money,” Ella Rosenberg says, describing a shift that reflects not only tactical adaptation but a structural evolution in how
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Yves Goulet is a former public servant whose professional life was deeply enmeshed within Canada’s intelligence architecture for over three decades. He commenced his career in 1994 with the Canadian Security Intelligence
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M.K. Stalin has cast the upcoming Assembly election as far more than a routine political contest, describing it as a defining confrontation between what he
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, one of the most influential figures in modern musical theatre, has revealed the depth of his struggle with alcoholism and the dramatic personal and professional transformation that has followed
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Few living figures embody Hungary’s turbulent modern history as fully as Paul Lendvai. Born in 1929 in Budapest, he survived the Holocaust, was imprisoned under communism, fled the country after the failed
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José Gil, one of Portugal’s most influential contemporary philosophers, delivers a blunt warning about the future of democracy: without radical reinvention, societies are drifting toward a new form of authoritarian rule shaped
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