Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed in their upscale LA Brentwood home. Were they robbed? Did they owe money? Had they upset the wrong people? No, their son, 32-year-old Nick ...

In the recently concluded state-level elections in three northern “Hindi heartland” states, the Indian National Congress (INC), the primary national opposition party, fared poorly. The Bharatiya ...

The international concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the repression of women’s rights, especially after Mahsa Amini's death, are profound. Nuclear weapons development could worsen the ...

In his dark 1964 comedy, Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick anticipated it, but Kim Jong Un has apparently given it a new reality. Not in the form of cinema, though I think the world could use an ...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has waxed and waned for several decades. The roots of it stem far beyond the most recent clashes in May that once again brought death and disaster to the region. The ...

We never welcome new media with open arms, but with suspicion or trepidation. New media changes not just how we communicate, but often how we live. Sometimes it’s the content itself, like films or ...

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As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...

As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat mayoral candidate for New York, has caught the fancy of many around the world. Yet when we take a closer look at him, the 33-year-old does not appear so wonderful. If ...

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...

Rupesh, a small-holder farmer in rural Karnataka, Southern India, was married to Neelam, with whom he had four children. He owed money to middle men who would take a cut off his new produce. Four ...