France is facing rapidly mounting debt, which has resulted in a dangerous political paralysis. The country has cycled through five prime ministers in two years. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ...

Atul and Glenn explain how Germany rose from the ashes of defeat in World War II to create a postwar economic miracle. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Germany faced integration problems but ...

In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, ...

Earlier this year, a controversy erupted over a portrait of US President Donald Trump in the Colorado Capitol building. This incident is a recent example of the president’s interest in the arts.

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 ...

When we learned of “the end of history,” a little over three decades ago, our geopolitical meteorologists forecasted sunny skies for the neoliberal reality that was coursing across the globe.

For centuries, the Middle East has stood at the crossroads of civilization and conflict. Despite the formal establishment of modern nation-states, the region has failed to achieve internal political ...

Japan’s recent economic history is defined by two contrasting visions: Shinzo Abe’s bold reflationary drive centered on monetary innovation and structural reform, and Fumio Kishida’s pragmatic focus ...

Atul opens by confronting reductive Western stereotypes of Iran as a land of “bearded mullahs.” He insists that Iran stands among the world’s great civilizations, rooted in the legendary Persian ...

Thanks to rising prices and cost-of-living crisis, right-wing populists have broken through in the election for the upper house of the Japanese parliament. This weakens the long-dominant Liberal ...

Israel’s recent confrontation with Iran pushed Saudi Arabia to assert itself as a diplomatic actor in the Middle East. Riyadh dispatched senior officials to Washington and Moscow to reduce tensions ...

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 ...