Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fell from power in December 2024, marking the end of over five decades of rule by the Assad family. Now, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Islamist group which was once a ...

In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, signaling a shift to coalition governance. Botswana's elections reflected dissatisfaction with the Botswana Democratic Party ...

A few weeks ago the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) based at Rutgers University released a new study on the effectiveness of certain antiracist, anti-Islamophobic and caste-abolitionist ...

Wars can end practically overnight. Just look at Syria, which was locked in a civil war for a dozen years. Having survived a succession of uprisings, Bashar al-Assad seemed on track to become a tyrant ...

The United States has moved away from its moral foreign policy of promoting democracy and human rights across the globe. This shift could create global instability, as authoritarian regimes could fill ...

Most Americans are scared of hospital bills, even if they are insured. But few may go as far as to check who owns these facilities, or if they have a new owner. A new paper by experts at the ...

Geopolitical tensions are growing globally over the cutting of two subsea cables in the Baltic Sea, and a struggle for dominance between the West and China threatens digital equity. With subsea cables ...

Liberals hate President-elect Donald Trump, no question about it. He’s the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist and downright nasty. Not only that, he’s a living repudiation of the ...

Syria is yet another demonstration of an American policy that is woefully out of date. Foreign adventurism has caused both immeasurable harm abroad and sapped American society at home. The US emerged ...

Most people would agree that, as 2025 approaches, the political outlook in western democracies looks uniformly bleak. The United Kingdom at least has a government, whereas France and Germany are in a ...

The political temperature in France has been rising for more than a decade. It has now reached boiling point. President Emmanuel Macron’s latest attempt to form a government compatible with his ...

Hilde Holger was a great expressionist dancer. She studied dance in Vienna with Gertrud Bodenwieser (1890–1959) and started the Neue Schule für Bewegungskunst (New School for Movement Art) in 1926. In ...