Cyprus is an enduring feature of the Global Militarisation Index’s Top 10. Six armies maintain permanent military presence here, and many more use the island as their unsinkable aircraft carrier. But ...

What is new in the current situation and particularly ominous, is that, formerly, even the most exclusivist version of Zionism did not rely on genocide as a tool: generations of Zionists have tried to ...

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It is time to move away from a politics in which cruelty is always portrayed as “toughness” and moral abdication as “realism” ...

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In places like historic Mississauga, which was developing and expanding during the late Victorian era, settlers brought their ...

We are again living through a credibility test of the international system — and once again, a great power has elevated an ...

According to Arthur Schlesinger, Kennedy considered making Walter Lippmann his ambassador to Paris, but Schlesinger told the ...

When the 20th century arrived, the British Empire stood at its peak - yet the seeds of its collapse were already growing. Wars drained its resources, independence movements surged, and global politics ...

Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

A dog may be a human's best friend, but cats aren't far from it either. So, it will probably come as no surprise that even long before the era of the internet and YouTube, cats were already popular.