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 ...

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 ...

In his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy reassured Americans that the decline the United States was facing after a century of international dominance was ...

In 2020, COVID hit the global economy like a ton of bricks. Lockdowns induced a global slowdown and disrupted supply chains. Not only toilet paper but also semiconductors were in short supply. A 2021 ...

A Reuters article this week quoted this public statement by a prominent political leader: “Sufficient evidence has been collected to report this person on suspicion of treason. All his criminal ...

In 1941, World War II was in full swing. Thanks to its oil reserves, Iran was a key piece on the geopolitical chessboard. Reza Shah Pahlavi was in-charge as an absolutist ruler. The British had backed ...

In World War II, US leaders discovered that large numbers of soldiers were not firing their weapons at the enemy — they couldn’t bring themselves to kill other human beings. So, the US military ...

During the Dutch colonial era, indigenous gay scenes also existed alongside their Dutch counterparts. An important manuscript written in 1928 and published in 1992 as My Life: an Autobiography of a ...

The authors argue that none of the stakeholders in this war — the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the USA and its NATO allies — has leveled with its own people to honestly explain what it is fighting for ...

In a 2023 piece for TomDispatch, Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox argued that India oppresses its large Muslim minority. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, India is a secular state that ...

US President Donald Trump’s environmental rollbacks have sparked a constitutional clash over states’ rights, prompting governmental resistance. Democratic-led states are using litigation, local laws ...

The term “honey trap” was popularized by John le Carré in his 1974 novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. During the Cold War, intelligence agencies regularly deployed women to ensnare senior military ...