On June 1, 2026, millions of Ethiopians took to the ballot box despite widespread conflict and displacement. Ethiopian citizens’ willingness to work towards improving democratic institutions may point ...

In the Chinese province of Xinjiang, the Uyghur ethnic minority faces mass detention and forced labor. The CCP has woven databases, cameras and detention centers together to create a massive network ...

On April 22, 2025, gunmen killed 26 people — mostly tourists — in a targeted attack in Baisaran Valley near the town of Pahalgam, an Indian-administered Kashmir. The victims were shot at close range ...

Shamim Mafi, a US permanent resident living in California, was arrested for allegedly brokering millions of dollars in Iranian weapons sales to conflict zones like Sudan. Prosecutors say she worked ...

Western imperialism persists through economic sanctions, military interventions and control over global resources, as seen in Venezuela and Iran. Nations with strong ideological commitment, like Iran, ...

Elsinore, Denmark — In a ceremony at Kronborg Castle — a venue chosen, said one senior European Union official, because it “felt appropriately dramatic without requiring a new venue-hire budget line” ...

Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz, causing a rise in fuel and fertilizer prices. In turn, these will cause shortages and prices of food to rise. Asian economies that rely on Gulf energy will ...

Puerto Rican performer Bad Bunny’s 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show marked a historic moment as the first to be performed entirely in Spanish, celebrating Latinx culture and Puerto Rican identity. The ...

The dissolution of the Iranian state into smaller ethnic or sectarian entities is a catastrophic miscalculation in 2026. Rather than securing the West and Israel, the Balkanization of Iran would ...

Contemporary great power competition is shifting toward strategic “gateways” of the international system — regions where geopolitical influence, economic infrastructure and military power intersect.

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...

Imagine a distant past, thousands of years ago, when ancient tribes roamed the vast lands of Eurasia. Among these tribes were the enigmatic Proto-Indo-Europeans, whose language, now known as ...