Following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December, the new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham government is turning heads. The international community remains skeptical this al-Qaeda-affiliated ...

At the core of the Red Sea crisis lies a failure to address the catastrophe in Gaza. But the outright failure of the United Nations’s 2018 Stockholm Agreement in Sweden exacerbated the situation. The ...

(Love that is scared is not love… it is debauchery, it is crime.) An artist often holds a concept close to his heart and works upon it for several years, before he finally manages to create an ...

In 1963, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I led the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which outlined essential principles for a free and prosperous Africa. The heads of state ...

Both the identity of the powerful, even hegemonic nation known as “the United States of America” has, since the nation’s origins, been fraught with an underlying ambiguity. As a political entity, a ...

In Part 1 and Part 2, I sought AI’s aid in assessing the motivations of the global leaders who are now all involved in a surprising brouhaha that broke the news cycle wide open last Friday in the Oval ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. Last ...

“After the scene in the White House between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28, it may be appropriate to conclude the entire sphere of geopolitics in the West has become pure delirium.

A few weeks ago, I attended the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in India. Called the “greatest literary show on Earth,” this annual gathering of famous authors and thinkers was founded in 2006 by ...

Donald Trump has always presented himself as a master builder, a successful real estate developer who erected office buildings and resorts and curated golf courses all around the world. In reality, ...

China has significantly expanded its currency swap agreements in recent years, using them as a strategic instrument of financial diplomacy to enhance the global standing of the renminbi (RMB). While ...