Famed football coach Pep Guardiola’s support of Palestine in February drew backlash, but it illustrates how far advocacy has come in sports. Where teams once remained neutral to escape from reality, ...

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...

Although no shots were fired, stones were thrown and fistfights broke out. They resulted in injuries to 11 soldiers from both sides. Numerous fights also occurred in the following weeks, with troops ...

There is so much that is so wrong emanating these days from US President Donald Trump and his merry band of corrupt oligarchs and sycophants that it is hard to know where to begin. A good starting ...

On Monday, August 5, the Japanese Nikkei stock market index dropped 12.4%, marking the worst day since the worldwide “Black Monday” crash of October 1987. On August 5, the US S&P 500 index lost 3%, ...

In the corridors of power in Islamabad, a storm is brewing that threatens to upend the Pakistani state. This nuclear-armed nation of 250 million people is caught in a perilous struggle for supremacy ...

In 2018, the President of the United States Donald Trump posted a rather enigmatic tweet about“farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers” by the South African government.

American political scientist Francis Fukuyama hailed “the end of history” and the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy in an article published in the National Interest at the very moment of the ...

The recent rise of social media sites, the instant spread of news via the internet and the availability of satellite imagery to the public created a plethora of open source information that is not ...

We are moving toward a complex, intriguingly unclear and, for some, unnervingly ambiguous world where heterosexuals will be a minority. I repeat: heterosexuals will be a minority. “Wait!” I hear you ...

In the leadup to the 75 th anniversary of Indian independence, a variety of articles appeared in the US press writing the epitaph for its democracy. The future of India’s democracy “looks increasingly ...

But the road back has just become a little bumpier for the president as on June 12th it was announced that the Dutch and Canadian governments are bringing a case against the Syrian regime to the ...