The television series Asking the Vast Earth (问苍茫, 2023) opens with a scene of a young Mao Zedong swimming in the Xiang River, swollen from the heavy rains. A fisherman calls from the bank
by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The curious episode of Donald Trump’s fascination with Greenland is more than just an odd historical footnote. It reveals a complex and often unspoken chapter in the
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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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Lebanon’s rich cultural heritage has been devastated by Israel’s airstrikes during its ongoing conflict with Hizbollah, leaving experts and cultural preservation groups alarmed at the scale of destruction. According to a report
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The following excerpts are adapted from the author’s book The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond, published by Princeton University Press.
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Numeracy or numerosity, the ability to think about and use numbers, varies among human cultures and within populations, much like intelligence does. Many known languages, for example, have no words for numerals
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The following excerpts are adapted from the author’s book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery, published by the University of Chicago Press. We are living in a moment in which
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Shalom Nagar, the Israeli prison guard who oversaw the execution of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, has passed away at the age of 86. His death marks the end of an era,
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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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There is a great deal of attention in modern societies to inequality and the social problems it causes. Often inequality is considered to be the unavoidable consequence of how society operates in many cultures,
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It is worth considering, in light of humanity’s profound struggle against the world’s climate and matters of elemental justice, how the onset of the Biblical tale of Noah is relevant today. According
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