Turkey’s economic struggles arise from a bureaucratic tradition that favors state control over the creative destruction essential for capitalism. Political elites, from the Ottoman Empire to the ...

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 ...

[Arab Digest thanks Christopher Davidson, a noted author and scholar for this piece. His latest book is From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.] Unveiled ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...

In a world marked by the incessant battles of organized religion and power-hungry politicians, a controversial mystic emerged. He challenged the status quo and urged individuals to break free from the ...

With approximately 11.6 million 60-kg bags forecast and exports nearing 288.2 billion Birr ($200.8 billion), Ethiopia must either transform its irreplaceable Arabica gene pool into a high-value ...

Sarito Carroll lived in Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s commune in Oregon, which collapsed under criminal charges 40 years ago. Like most teenagers in Rajneeshpuram, she was sexually abused there. Now she is ...

Ten years after Germany accepted nearly 900,000 refugees, politicians have rewritten the story of the 2015 “refugee summer” as a crisis instead of a humanitarian effort. Far-right narratives, led by ...

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 ...

Once obscure and overlooked, rare earth elements (REEs) are now at the heart of the 21st-century technological revolution. From precision-guided missiles and electric vehicles to wind turbines and ...

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 ...

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 ...