For the past several years, the Washington Post’s senior diplomatic columnist, David Ignatius, has echoed the optimism of the Trump administration in ...

With the country and world being inundated with Trump craziness on a daily basis, it feels wrong to step back to deal with more basic points about ...

We, humans, treat animals like animals, so why should we be surprised when we treat humans like animals? If only we could ...

General Augusto Pinochet, the strongman who imposed a reign of terror on Chile from 1973 to 1990, must be smiling in his ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s description of the company’s quarterly earnings in August 2025 as “once in a generation” wasn’t far-fetched. It surpassed $1 ...

The Surveillance State is making a naughty list, and we’re all on it. Unlike Santa’s naughty list, however, the consequences ...

First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though, by Israel’s own military intelligence database, 83 percent of the ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro described the detention of an oil tanker seized by US military personnel in the Caribbean Sea on Wednesday as an act ...

Does Italian cuisine exist?  Not according to Alberto Grandi, daring food historian and professor of economic history at the University of Parma.  With ...

Hitting two birds with one stone, the U.S. government, top-level disturber of the peace now brandishing a Caribbean armada, strikes out against Venezuela ...

When I first traveled to China in 1990, I expected a demanding professional assignment. What I did not anticipate was an encounter that would shape my ...

Across the world, governments are tightening controls on speech, expanding surveillance and rolling back rights once thought to be secure. From ...