One of modern history’s major empires is falling apart right now, right before our eyes. Yet precious few in the media have reported on this extraordinary event, much less offered any analysis of its ...

Guacamole, or so BBC has claimed, is “undoubtedly one of Mexico’s most popular dishes,” dating back to the times of the Aztecs. Thanks to Pancho Villa and Old El Paso’s spice mix, guacamole has ...

During his speech at the US-Saudi Investment Forum, Trump reengaged with Middle Eastern leaders and revived the Abraham Accords. His focus on trade-based incentives signals a broader shift toward ...

US President Joe Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating ...

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 ...

Unlike most societies, political alignment in Afghanistan is not divided along the right and the left axis. Most of the policy debates in the last two decades of the so-called republic were shaped by ...

When Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election, the media filled with breathless headlines about the collapse of democracy. Trump’s victory was certainly the collapse of something, but ...

Addiction to social media applications is a growing concern worldwide. There is not yet a consensus on how severe and widespread the problem is; socioeconomic, technological, cultural and even ...

In February, Elon Musk dared to complain on Twitter that “Nobody is pushing this war more than Nuland.” He was referring to Victoria Nuland, the US undersecretary of state for political affairs, who ...

Since its inception in 1950, the Indian Supreme Court (SC) has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving from a subordinate body into a central figure in Indian governance. This shift is the ...

Despite the commonplace homophobia in Asian societies today, no nation can deny a presence of LGBT practices in its history. A few years ago, most Indonesians probably didn’t know what the acronym ...

The guns have fallen silent along the Line of Control (LoC) between Pakistani- and Indian-administered Kashmir. A fragile ceasefire is in place, but this calm is unlikely to last. Pakistan has a long ...