The fires of war burn from Palestine to Ukraine and from Sudan to Iran, demoralising billions of people around the world who suffer from the inferno and inflation. There seems to be
Editor’s note: The following excerpts are based on remarks by Lei, a commentator who says she was born in communist China, studied in the United States during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests,
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On Thursday, the European Parliament delivered its most forceful condemnation of the Taliban to date. Lawmakers voted 480 to five, with 83 abstentions, to demand expanded international sanctions against Taliban leaders, enforce International Criminal Court arrest
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Myanmar’s military rulers have opened a new phase in the country’s brutal civil war, launching coordinated offensives across several strategically vital border regions in an effort to regain territory lost to rebel
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The warnings had been dramatic. Weeks before thousands gathered in the Czech city of Brno for the annual Sudeten German Day, politicians and activists predicted chaos, rebellion and even flames in the
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The Catholic Church has long struggled with a painful modern reality: much of the world, especially in the West, no longer listens to it with the authority it once commanded. There was
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A growing political storm is engulfing Argentina and Bolivia after allegations emerged that President Javier Milei’s government used military aircraft to send riot-control equipment to Bolivia while publicly presenting the operation as
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Between May 14 and May 20 Russia repositioned five of six recently launched Cosmos military satellites (Cosmos 2610, 2611, 2612, 2613, 2614 ) from an orbital inclination of 97.0 degrees to 97.8 degrees, putting
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor A landmark assessment from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has revealed a sharp and sustained contraction in global peacekeeping, warning that multilateral conflict management is entering
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On the surface, life in Taiwan moves with striking normality. Families stroll along beaches, students gather after classes, and couples take wedding photos against scenic coastal backdrops. Yet beneath this calm, the
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With the landing of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Hangzhou over the weekend, what was brought along was not only a diplomatic agenda but also an economic outlook. Within hours of his arrival in
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It is commencement season and the ceremony at Bard College this weekend was special for a number of reasons. Above all, the great class of 2026 — I had some truly remarkable
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by Eric The book Africulture: On the Erasure of African Agricultural Genius is a forceful intervention into the history of agriculture, race, and epistemic authority, structured around a central provocation: that modern
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by Luxman The book Adolf Hitler and the Art of Tyranny: On Power, Will, and Leadership is constructed as a curated archive of authoritarian thought, framed through thematic organisation and interpretive commentary.
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by Durga The book Malcolm in the Desert: On Pilgrimage, Transformation, and Sacred Disruption is a bold and uneasy hybrid: part spiritual commentary on Malcolm X’s life, part philosophical treatise on transformation,
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For years, Tim Foley and his militia stalked the deserts of southern Arizona hunting migrants, drug couriers and cartel scouts crossing illegally from Mexico into the United States. Armed with AR-15 rifles,
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