Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will go down in history for their respective failures in regime change.  Both Trump and Putin ...

The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic position at ...

Until recently, the predominant life pains that I have long seen in my psychologist day job include: abusive and neglectful parents, dysfunctional families, loveless marriages, lifelong loneliness, ...

With only a few days left before Illinois’ primary elections on March 17 th, the bitter, often nasty campaigns to succeed prominent members of the state’s Congressional delegation, notably four term ...

There are two wars taking place in Iran – one being fought by the United States, the other by Israel. For the U.S., the war against Iran is a war of ...

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Wars can distract, and for leaders in political purgatory, they can be particularly useful. It remains to be seen whether the UK’s increasing involvement in the illegal war being waged on Iran by ...

An aerial photo shows rectangular tracings etched into dirt, one rectangle after the other, creating a grid across the land. A yellow excavator pulls piles of earth out from within the rectangular ...

In February 2026, the intellectual left was hit with a curious form of damage control. Valeria Chomsky issued a public apology for what she called a “grave mistake” on behalf of her husband, the ...

Bilateral negotiations are rarely simple, as the late-February negotiations between Iranians and Americans have recently shown. As an American-Swiss citizen, I can recount a story of successful ...

“I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, the CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir. Far from an ...

Over the past few years people—and governments—the world over have become increasingly enamored of AI. While some view AI as an economic game changer, the catalytic agent for a coming golden economic ...