When a government fails to meaningfully respond to the carnage in its streets, every citizen should question the competence and corruption of those charged with the governmental responsibility to act, ...

Similar to Jews and Palestinians, Kurds have faced oppression, displacement, and a long struggle for statehood. Although most Kurds are Muslim, their views on the Israel-Palestine conflict vary. Some ...

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 ...

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 ...

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There has been an association between the occult, paganism and the extreme right ever since the evolution of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party from the Thule Society. In the last few years, ...

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 ...

Often used as a whipping boy for its high administrative burden and cost of care, the United States is best in class for pay, research, innovation and certain high-profile clinical outcomes.

Pepe the Frog, the green character in Matt Furie’s “Boy’s Club” cartoons, is familiar on the internet. The alt-right started to use it to symbolize their battle against political correctness as well ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently suggested that the EU should reopen accession negotiations with his country. The proposal has been met with near-universal incredulity in the West.

[This piece is a continuation of a multi-part series. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 here.] The support of the Brazilian militias and the Neo-Pentecostal churches may have guaranteed Brazilian ...

Once famous for historic battles, Sutjeska National Park in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a region of mountains and primeval forests on the border with Montenegro. More recently, lawyers have replaced ...