Our global society is going through a difficult period that is producing a lot of anxiety, alienation and anger. What underlies these negative feelings is a social transition known as an inflection ...

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 ...

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 ...

Strong institutions — from the rule of law and property rights — are the foundation of economic prosperity. While America’s robust institutions have fostered investment and innovation, driving one of ...

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 ...

China's economy is grappling with a mounting debt crisis, particularly at the local government level, driven by fiscal deficits, shrinking land revenues and implicit debt burdens. This article ...

Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that United States global hegemony ...

Today, Iran is ruled by a theocratic regime. It is easy to blame the mullahs for all of Iran’s ills. However, it is an inconvenient truth that their path to power was paved by the British and the ...

India’s 1975–1977 Emergency saw Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government suppressing free speech and arresting dissenters. My father was one victim, taken from my family for writing against the ...

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 ...

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There has been an association between the occult, paganism and the extreme right ever since the evolution of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party from the Thule Society. In the last few years, ...