In the realm of political dramas, few can rival the sheer audacity and intricacy of House of Cards. Anchored by the indomitable presence of Kevin Spacey as the Machiavellian Frank Underwood, the show ...

When is a genocide a genocide? You’d think this question would be easy to answer. After all, the official definition of the word is clear. The UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention explains it as “any of the ...

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Over ten years, the late anthropologist and political activist David Graeber and the archaeologist David Wengrow shared thoughts, explored ideas and conducted research on an impressive scale to ...

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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.

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 ...

Geopolitical tensions are growing globally over the cutting of two subsea cables in the Baltic Sea, and a struggle for dominance between the West and China threatens digital equity. With subsea cables ...

The peculiarities of classical Greece make empirical theories of political revolution much easier to imagine than in, say, the Persian Empire, which was a hereditary monarchy for pretty much its ...

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 ...

In the recently concluded state-level elections in three northern “Hindi heartland” states, the Indian National Congress (INC), the primary national opposition party, fared poorly. The Bharatiya ...

Russia has developed into a major hub for human trafficking. The Russian Federation is the largest country in the world, stretching from Europe to the Pacific, and is a massive landmass for the origin ...