European leaders sought influence in the Middle East as tensions rose over Gaza and pressure mounted for a two-state solution. France, the UK and Portugal recognized Palestine, but US mediation ...

Radical politics do not simply come out of nowhere. Numerous critical issues in recent years have generated a great deal of fear and anger around the world, with the richest and most egalitarian ...

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The Shah led a famously dissolute life, visiting nightclubs across Europe and chasing beautiful actresses. One of them was Grace Kelly who became the Princess Grace of Monaco in 1956. The Shah spent ...

Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...

Zou Jiayi’s appointment as president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) underscores the Bank’s deep political alignment with the Chinese Communist Party, challenging its claim to ...

Many scholars have spilled much ink on Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. A giant has now waded into the fray and penned a masterpiece. Ishtiaq Ahmed is a professor emeritus at Stockholm ...

Similar to Jews and Palestinians, Kurds have faced oppression, displacement, and a long struggle for statehood. Although most Kurds are Muslim, their views on the Israel-Palestine conflict vary. Some ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat mayoral candidate for New York, has caught the fancy of many around the world. Yet when we take a closer look at him, the 33-year-old does not appear so wonderful. If ...

More than 25 years have passed since the tragedy, yet a web of conspiracy theories that has been spun around the disaster has fueled the Swedish radical right’s imagination.

[This piece is a continuation of a multi-part series. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 here.] The support of the Brazilian militias and the Neo-Pentecostal churches may have guaranteed Brazilian ...

Often used as a whipping boy for its high administrative burden and cost of care, the United States is best in class for pay, research, innovation and certain high-profile clinical outcomes.