The Pathfinder Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Sri Lanka have launched a lecture series marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, opening with a discussion on
Half a century has passed since Concorde lifted off with paying passengers for the first time, yet the anniversary feels less like a celebration and more like a quiet admission of loss.
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A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to the descendants of unarmed civilians killed during a colonial-era massacre, in a ruling described
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Forty-seven years ago, on this day, the Islamic Revolution of Iran achieved victory under the leadership of Imam Khomeini, marking a historic turning point in the nation’s political, social, and cultural life.
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For millions of people in China, Chinese New Year’s Eve begins the same way: a long journey home, a table slowly filling with dishes, and conversations that stretch late into the night.
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More than half a century after the last American helicopters lifted off from Saigon, Vietnam’s military is still quietly preparing for the possibility of war with the United States. A leaked internal
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For decades, the Iran–Iraq War has been remembered as a brutal, ideologically charged conflict between two regional rivals that bled each other dry from 1980 to 1988. Nearly a million people were
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One needs a huge audacity and imagination to write a political satire, as it can always be a double-edged sword. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and George Orwell’s famous Animal Farm are examples
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In the early 1980s, Moshe Alamaro was living in the United States without legal status, moving quietly through Boston on the margins of American life. Trained as an engineer and newly arrived
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Editor’s Note: This essay is based on excerpts adapted from Germanicus, Rome’s Unlucky Prince by Alessio Perry. The Mysterious Death of a Beloved Man Their friends were waiting anxiously in the antechamber.
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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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