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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of all of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, DC. He is the ...

Many scholars have spilled much ink on Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. A giant has now waded into the fray and penned a masterpiece. Ishtiaq Ahmed is a professor emeritus at Stockholm ...

China condemned the operation that started the Iran War but refrained from direct involvement, revealing limits in its strategic partnerships. The disruption of Iran’s oil exports to China highlights ...

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In October 2025, Le Monde featured a column by its San Francisco correspondent, Corine Lesnes, in which she expressed her doubts about the sanity of a prominent figure in finance and a Silicon Valley ...

More than 25 years have passed since the tragedy, yet a web of conspiracy theories that has been spun around the disaster has fueled the Swedish radical right’s imagination.