“Liberalism is obsolete,” declared Vladimir Putin to the Financial Times in an interview, published in the respected newspaper only hours before the Osaka G-20 summit. The Russian president is once again center stage in international politics, it seems. This was...
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has become a phenomenon among US millennials since 2016. Even today, among those aged 18 to 24 years of age, 59 percent supported him in a Harvard/Harris poll conducted in November 2018. However, it is not...
Iran has officially surpassed the enrichment level set by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as of Monday. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javid Zarif announced that Iran had crossed the 300-kilogram limit, which was confirmed by General Yukiya Amano,...
Not for the first time, Germany is confronting homegrown extremism. When CDU (Christian Democratic Union) politician Walter Lübcke was murdered on June 2, it starkly highlighted a problem that has long been simmering under the surface of German politics, and...
Peaceful revolutions seldom stay that way for long. Sudan’s desperate decline from bloodless coup to civilian massacre is surely testament to this. Where just weeks earlier jubilant song had filled the Khartoum air, the clatter of gunfire melded with the...
In the squalid camp in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state in Myanmar, the heat is sweltering and unforgiving inside the tin-roofed makeshift huts. Encased by barbed wires, there is no escape; the outside world is a dwindling hope to...
As Graham Allison writes in Destined for War, in 2011, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced with considerable fanfare an important “turning point” in American foreign policy. This would have diverted Washington’s attention and resources from the Middle East to...
Peace talks between the United States and North Korea are back on the agenda in Washington thanks to an impromptu meeting at the DMZ on Sunday. The G20 summit in Osaka, Japan was concluding when US President Donald Trump tweeted...
CNN‘s Zachary B. Wolf stated that the Republicans love the Electoral College and the Democrats hate it, because it cost both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections respectively. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said at...
(Cairo) Whether Iran will move ahead with its threat to stop complying with uranium enrichment limits included in the 2015 nuclear accord with major powers, is a question the Islamic Republic will answer in the coming days. Iran said on...