by Taleen Mardirossian My mother has two birth dates: the one on her passport, and then the real one. She was born in January in the late 60s in Beirut, Lebanon. But because her birth was not registered for another 10 weeks, official documents give a date in March. With every phone ...
by Daniel DePetris For most of the year, the Ukrainian army has been in a defensive crouch across the more than 600-mile-long front line. It has been dealing with a Russian opponent whose use of glide bombs, artillery and so-called meat assaults — waves of Russian troops moving ...
by Elizabeth Shackelford Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was once a sign of democratic hope and prosperity for Bangladesh, but with time and power, she turned autocratic. Her efforts to entrench her rule, however, finally failed. Last Monday, she resigned, driven from power by popular ...
by Lionel Laurent The author Stefan Zweig once wrote that European politics has for centuries been a struggle between two schools of leadership: The common good espoused by humanist Erasmus, and a more self-interested pursuit of power promoted by Machiavelli. It’s the former that ...
by Howard Chua-Eoan As upheavals go, the massive victory of the Labour Party over the long-ruling Conservatives was relatively sedate — apart from all the yelling from the losers, mostly directed at each other. Perhaps it was because it was largely foretold by opinion polls. They ...