However, since a mere dusting operation of the old playbook is unlikely to work in the current circumstances, the Taliban has signaled an interest in doing things differently this time. Its foreign ...

Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s 2025 presidential election after voters turned against Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government for failing to deliver on key promises. Nawrocki enters office with ...

Global public debt has reached unprecedented levels and is projected to exceed 100% of global GDP by 2030, with rising interest rates and shrinking fiscal space compounding the risks. Yet the greater ...

In 1984, Stuart Auerbach of The Washington Post described Indira Gandhi as “Mother India” or “the Empress of India” for her supporters. One rather sycophantic one who was president of her party ...

Some of us old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 have maintained a sense of how fragile our enjoyment of the post World War II consumer society might be. In relation to the chaos ...

Yet an additional country obtaining a nuclear weapon could set off a cascade of others. While larger powers are currently leading the nuclear posturing, smaller countries may see an opportunity amid ...

Netflix documentary "Anna Nicole: You Don’t Know Me" explores the captivating yet perilous life of Anna Nicole Smith.

Glenn Carle Glenn Carle is a retired CIA officer who was Deputy National Intelligence Officer leading the 17 agencies that compose the US Intelligence Community in preparing assessments on ...

What should Americans conclude from all this as a new presidential election in 2024 approaches? The obvious lesson is that US foreign policy, barring a Trump victory, will be neo-con and dedicated to ...

Reza Shah presided over the greatest loot of Iranian historical and cultural relics. In 1931, he allowed foreign archaeologists to explore Iran and excavate Persepolis, the capital of the ancient ...

The United States Finally, we turn to the United States, where a man broke into the home of Speaker Nancy Pelosi just days before the election, ultimately injuring her husband. Pelosi, one of the most ...

Similarly, the Lebanese Phalanges believe the Phoenicians were the original residents of the Mediterranean coast. The Lebanese Phalanges imagined a glorious past, combining stories of a mythical ...