by Our Correspondent in Colombo In an age where diplomacy is as much about optics as it is about policy, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, has taken ‘attachment’ to a
Four years ago in 2018, after returning from a Veterans For Peace trip to Vietnam, I wrote an article called “Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A
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Over the weekend, the full-scale war in Ukraine has hit a two-year mark, and the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza conflict is nearing 30,000. Two ongoing conflicts are causing humanitarian catastrophes.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday secured victory over Nikki Haley, his former ambassador to the United Nations, in South Carolina’s Republican primary, advancing a step closer to a potential face-off
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With a mix of alarm and dismay, observers have watched as a twice-impeached former president, who is also the first such officeholder to be criminally indicted in 234 years of American history,
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When I was a boy growing up in New York City I was taught – and re-taught – to always save half of my weekly allowance and never spend more than I
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This is a painful story for the families of three Navy SEALs. Two of the SEALs were lost at sea and a third was critically injured on a mission on January 11
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Environmental groups and oil companies filed two separate legal challenges at almost the same time to a U.S. appeals court against the Joe Biden administration over a controversial plan to offer drilling
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The escalating political polarization in the United States has given rise to a dystopian narrative, as portrayed in the upcoming film “Civil War,” in which 19 U.S. states, led by Texas and
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In the wake of frequent attacks by Iraqi militia on U.S. military bases and the Iraqi prime minister’s repeated orders to expel U.S. forces, Iraq and America on Saturday kicked off the
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While it may feel somewhat satisfying to celebrate the implosion of Ron DeSantis’s comically inept presidential campaign, this moment almost certainly also signifies something far grimmer: Donald Trump’s ascension to his third
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