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Mohammad Younas Tughyan Sakayi, a former professor at Kabul University and one of Afghanistan’s most distinguished researchers in Persian ...

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Leftists have ominously warned for a decade one group of people represent a unique threat to the American experiment: conservative evangelicals. Progressive elites published book after book, with ...

Cat owners are known for noticing the tiniest details about their pets, from the way they twitch their tails to the shine of their fur. Lately, a new phrase has popped up on social media that has ...

It is often argued, particularly in political debates, that China lacks genuine soft power. Joseph Nye defines the term as the ability to shape preferences through attraction rather than coercion. By ...

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