Delcy Rodríguez will travel to New York next week to participate in the United Nations General Assembly, in what will be the first visit by a Venezuelan head of state to the
In 1935, in the midst of an era giving birth to the mass reproducibility of art, the German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin writes that what “withers in the age of mechanical reproduction
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As soon as the television cameras were ushered out of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the carefully choreographed spectacle of diplomacy gave way to something more personal. Sitting across
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As an armada of US warships closes in on the waters surrounding Iran, a different battle is unfolding on land, largely hidden from view. Inside the country, the Iranian regime is engaged
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On January 29, 2026, direct flights between Bangladesh and Pakistan were reinstated after a 14-year break in a historic move that marked the renewal of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
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The Trump administration has fundamentally changed direction on Iran. US NATO Ambassador Matt Whitaker says the US will not try and force regime change in Iran, suggesting that “we don’t want another
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When Shwe Theingi first met Wutt Yee Aung at Myanmar’s Dagon University in 2019, the country was experiencing a rare opening after decades of military rule. The two students bonded over activism
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Over a matter of days, the United States has shifted an extraordinary concentration of military power to positions within striking distance of Iran. Advanced aircraft, including F-35 stealth fighters, heavy C-17 transport
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As Sri Lanka grapples with uncertainty over the long-delayed provincial council elections, a fresh argument has surfaced in the political arena. Former Member of Parliament and General Secretary of the Ilankai Tamil
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China was foremost among the countries that condemned the U.S. invasion of Venezuela. The Chinese Foreign Minister recently made a transit visit to Sri Lanka, during which he held bilateral discussions with
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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by Eric Drew Miller’s Preparing to Survive in the Age of Collapse is a book that dares to say out loud what most liberal democracies prefer to whisper, outsource to thrillers, or
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by Durga Fatima Bhutto’s The Hour of the Wolf arrives disguised as a book about animals, even as it quietly dismantles that premise almost from the start. What it becomes instead is
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by Luxman Brooke N. Newman’s The Crown’s Silence is a book that does not merely revise British history; it indicts it. Written with the precision of an archival historian and the moral
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by Durga Xi Van Fleet and Yu Jie’s Made in America is a book that positions itself not merely as memoir or polemic but as warning siren — and it does so
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Editorial America likes to imagine itself as a republic born of virtue: powdered wigs, stern faces, and a constitutional order designed to keep human weakness on a short leash. Yet the latest
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