As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman makes the obligatory statements of support for the Palestinian cause, but in reality he has thrown his lot in with Israel. Saudi authorities are desperately ...

In 2024, the Sahel region accounted for 51% of the world’s terror-related deaths. Jihadist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS are resurging across the Sahel, exploiting political instability, security ...

Central bank independence (CBI) is crucial for maintaining economic stability, particularly in a globalized world where political influence can lead to adverse outcomes like inflation and economic ...

Sex trafficking has existed since the dawn of civilization. The practices of sexual exploitation and sexual slavery are older than recorded history. Whenever a woman or girl — or man or boy — was ...

Notwithstanding Russia’s local proxy, fanning existing flames in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be a rational adventure from Putin’s viewpoint for additional reasons. First, Serbian and Turkish ...

Russia is using the presence of neo-Nazis in Ukraine as a pretext for war, but the West is sweeping it under the rug. In 2014, Nuland and the US State Department got their favorite, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, ...

The Congress party in India has appeased Muslims by granting them policy favors. This strategy has produced unforeseen side effects and is leading to further fragmentation along religious lines.

The late Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) was a prominent figure in the 20 th-century critical pedagogy movement and the celebrated author of the ground-breaking 1968 text, “Pedagogy of the ...

Despite the commonplace homophobia in Asian societies today, no nation can deny a presence of LGBT practices in its history. A few years ago, most Indonesians probably didn’t know what the acronym ...

A YouTube video dating from last January bears the title, “Will Trump’s billionaire brigade run America like a tech startup?” In it, Business Insider’s Media and Tech reporter Peter Kafka expresses ...

But times have changed. Three recent presidents — Barack Obama, Donald Trump and now Joe Biden — have made efforts to distance the US from its endless, exasperating entanglements in the Middle East.