Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s 2025 presidential election after voters turned against Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government for failing to deliver on key promises. Nawrocki enters office with ...

Global public debt has reached unprecedented levels and is projected to exceed 100% of global GDP by 2030, with rising interest rates and shrinking fiscal space compounding the risks. Yet the greater ...

Netflix documentary "Anna Nicole: You Don’t Know Me" explores the captivating yet perilous life of Anna Nicole Smith.

However, since a mere dusting operation of the old playbook is unlikely to work in the current circumstances, the Taliban has signaled an interest in doing things differently this time. Its foreign ...

Glenn Carle Glenn Carle is a retired CIA officer who was Deputy National Intelligence Officer leading the 17 agencies that compose the US Intelligence Community in preparing assessments on ...

In 2020, COVID hit the global economy like a ton of bricks. Lockdowns induced a global slowdown and disrupted supply chains. Not only toilet paper but also semiconductors were in short supply. A 2021 ...

In 1941, World War II was in full swing. Thanks to its oil reserves, Iran was a key piece on the geopolitical chessboard. Reza Shah Pahlavi was in-charge as an absolutist ruler. The British had backed ...

In World War II, US leaders discovered that large numbers of soldiers were not firing their weapons at the enemy — they couldn’t bring themselves to kill other human beings. So, the US military ...

During the Dutch colonial era, indigenous gay scenes also existed alongside their Dutch counterparts. An important manuscript written in 1928 and published in 1992 as My Life: an Autobiography of a ...

The authors argue that none of the stakeholders in this war — the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the USA and its NATO allies — has leveled with its own people to honestly explain what it is fighting for ...

In a 2023 piece for TomDispatch, Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox argued that India oppresses its large Muslim minority. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, India is a secular state that ...

US President Donald Trump’s environmental rollbacks have sparked a constitutional clash over states’ rights, prompting governmental resistance. Democratic-led states are using litigation, local laws ...