Before we understood where we stood on a map, we understood what was taken away.  Before we could spell sovereignty, we ...

A dramatic escalation in Middle East tensions transformed into outright war when U.S. and Israeli forces launched a ...

Last night, I watched an episode of Black Mirror and couldn't let it go. Now I don’t mean the cheap shock of a clever twist that you admire and then forget.

Before Qur’anic verses were recited, the Arab body knew the mathematics of scarcity. It walked across horizons where water ...

Luc Besson's Dracula adaptation is all trodden ground, lackluster and haphazard. Coincidences reign supreme, there’s no master plan on the part of the good Count (and his ridiculous hairstyle) who ...

Extremely disturbing reports came again from Iran in recent days. Scattered and fragmented, but more poignant for that very reason. Images of streets littered ...

Given the avowed pacifism of the supposedly liberal modern world order, reconciliations have been conspicuously rare in recent history. While after 1945 the ...

When I first read The Museum of Innocence, it didn’t feel like a love story so much as a treasure hunt. For the antique lover that I am, these objects felt ...

Director Gabriel Mascaro got the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize in 2025 at the Berlin Film Festival for this movie. About a 75 ...

Nations rarely unravel through a single dramatic act. They erode when the foundations of trust, aspiration, and private ...

The tile shown below comes from official British counter-terrorism information materials. It is part of the official GOV.UK guidance on how extremism and ...

The European Commission’s 2026 meta-study on energy connectivity across the Eastern Partnership, the South Caucasus, Turkey, ...