Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
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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In the midst of the Cold War’s early years, Soviet scientists quietly explored an engineering idea so vast it bordered on science fiction: sealing off the Bering Strait with a colossal dam
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s (AKD) recent visit to Jaffna received significant social media attention due to posting of a less than a minute-long video of him going for a walk there. An
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For generations, La Malinche occupied a singularly dark place in Mexico’s national imagination. Her name became shorthand for treason, her story a cautionary tale of Indigenous betrayal during the Spanish conquest. As
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India is marking Republic Day 2026 today with a blend of patriotic ceremony and high-stakes diplomacy, as European Union leaders attend the national parade in New Delhi. The celebration, traditionally centred on
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Editorial Today, on India’s 77th Republic Day, the nation stands taller in global rankings than ever before — yet the Republic’s original promise remains incomplete, and its darker compromises are still being
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by Eric “This is a violation of the given word and an act against the rights of man and international morality.”“No ruler, no matter how exalted, stood above the will of the
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Every time the Chinese New Year approaches, I find myself paying closer attention to the animal of the year. Not just the symbolism, but the stories behind it, where those meanings came
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For decades, Cuba’s official narrative has been anchored in a story of resistance: a small island standing firm against the most powerful nation on Earth. This January 8, however, that story was
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In the decades before the storming of the Bastille, France did not simply move toward revolution because of bad harvests, economic collapse, or the glaring inequality between Versailles and the starving streets
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Long before stock markets and mutual funds, the wealthy of ancient Greece and Rome were already practicing sophisticated investment strategies that would look familiar to modern financiers. A new feature in Live
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Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. — Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail Rationality Martin Luther King Jr. Day – A Federal holiday in the United States – is observed
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Newly uncovered documents released by the National Security Archive expose how a little-known set of secret legal opinions authored in 1989 quietly rewrote the limits of U.S. presidential power. At the center
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In a 2009 interview with Voice of America’s Ukrainian Service, conducted by Myroslava Gongadze, Zbigniew Brzezinski ( 1928-2017) offered a penetrating assessment of United States policy towards Eastern Europe and Ukraine at
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