In the modern, highly networked global landscape, social media networks, including X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp, are essential for communication, interaction and business.

Jain then explains how fragile DC’s self-government really is. While the city elects a mayor and council, the federal government controls the judiciary and prosecution of adult crimes. Judges are ...

The Syrian crisis began in 2011, when Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s government cracked down violently on protests linked to the Arab Spring uprisings. That repression ignited over a decade of ...

American historian Anne Applebaum coined the term “Autocracy, Inc.” to describe government leaders around the world who function like an agglomeration of like-minded people. They are not united by ...

I’m sitting on the hot sand at Playa de Zicatela in Puerto Escondido, a sleepy hamlet on Mexico’s Pacific coast, exhausted after a long session on the waves. My friend Neftali is on his back, lain out ...

As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

Central bank independence (CBI) is crucial for maintaining economic stability, particularly in a globalized world where political influence can lead to adverse outcomes like inflation and economic ...

US President Joe Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating ...

The steep forbidding wilderness of Montara Mountain, a narrow ridge abuttin the famous San Andreas fault in Northern California, is a kind of perfect wilderness. We Coastsiders – that is, those who ...

What lessons can multicultural Singapore offer America in light of the latter’s ongoing racial and religious tensions? Raw feelings over race and religion dominate the American political season. The ...

In the first of a three-part series, Fasil Amdetsion looks at the evolution of Italy’s relationship with its former colonies in the Horn of Africa. Earlier this year, Italy hosted the first ever Italy ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces mounting challenges as his third term nears its end, with rising public discontent over national security failures, cronyism ...