People tend to explain electoral trends on the basis of single factors, especially individual leading personalities. In India since 2014, this means the personality of incumbent Prime Minister ...

Something to consider when listening/reading: Is it wrong to tell your child they can achieve great things? Gina watched her husband coming through the door, smiling, full of energy, filled with the ...

The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing ...

Every few decades, the world witnesses technological revolutions that profoundly change our lives. This happened when we first invented computers, when we created the Internet and most recently when ...

Demographics are a challenge. I am an old guy who still has a landline and a television that isn’t smart at all. I do have a cellphone that I know how to turn on and off but only answer when I can ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) describes 30 rights and freedoms that “belong to all of us and that nobody can take away from us.” We constantly debate and promote educational rights, ...

The often-told narrative of the Middle East focuses on the rise and fall of empires like the Achaemenids, Abbasids and Ottomans. Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 330 ...

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Ever since US President Harry Truman made the decision to recognize the State of Israel in 1948, the two countries have had what both have called a “special relationship.” It’s important to note that ...

Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the ...

The international media have touted the opposition success in Turkey’s recent local elections as earth-shattering and even historic. This is overblown. In reality, incumbent mayors held onto their ...