The absence of a single African representative at the Berlin Conference of 1884–85, where European powers established rules for dividing the continent among themselves, provides the central premise of Daniel Kehlmann’s new
In September 2024, a well-known media outlet from Albania reached out to me for my perspective on a recent €2.7 billion deal between France and Serbia, signed by Presidents Macron and Vučić, to provide
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Newly declassified files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have reignited theories of a covert coup, implicating intelligence agencies from both Australia and the United Kingdom. Former Australian lawmaker
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Once a small but strategic British colony, Heligoland played a crucial role in European geopolitics before being forever altered by one of history’s most powerful explosions. Britain controlled the 1-square-mile island from
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Britain’s so-called ‘Great Experiment’ in Mauritius, which followed the abolition of slavery, was far from a noble endeavor. Instead, it was a calculated system of social engineering that left deep scars on
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The struggle for justice remains unresolved. A matter that once seemed settled—the fate of war criminal ATM Azhar, whose execution appeared imminent—has been brought into question once again. What was once a
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A controversial new claim by New York Times bestselling author Richard Poe suggests that the United Kingdom played a pivotal role in provoking World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution to further
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Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, he entered a world that had already marked him for struggle. His father, a Baptist minister and fervent disciple of Marcus Garvey’s
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On January 27, 1945, soldiers of the Soviet Red Army made a grim and historic discovery. As they entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration and extermination
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A new survey by the Claims Conference has highlighted a disturbing decline in Holocaust awareness among young Germans, with one in nine adults unaware of the atrocity, and a quarter unable to
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The death of Lucius Cary, the 2nd Viscount Falkland, at the First Battle of Newbury in 1643 has long been a subject of fascination. While many have interpreted his fatal charge toward
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The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises
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Adam LeBor’s The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance is an evocative and unflinching examination of one of history’s most tumultuous moments, a harrowing narrative set against the crumbling
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Donald Trump’s threat to seize the Panama Canal and the Houthis’ disruption of commercial shipping via the Suez to the tune of $7 billion in 2024 reminded the world of the significance
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According to The Times (UK), tensions in the illustrious Mewar dynasty of Rajasthan reached a boiling point during the ceremonial anointing of Vishvaraj Singh Mewar as the 77th Maharana on Monday. The Paghdi Dastoor,
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On the 50th anniversary of the Pinochet regime’s first act of international terrorism, the National Security Archive is posting a compilation of documents, including CIA intelligence reports and a judicial confession of
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