Lu Shaye, the Chinese ambassador to France, recently appeared on French television. He described China’s repression against Uighurs — a Turkic ethnic group — as “storytelling,” “lies” and “bullshit.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is the key point Stoltenberg made as he celebrated the organization’s 75 th birthday: “Support from NATO Allies and support from the United States to Ukraine is something which benefits our own ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has taken an unusually aggressive position on the Russia-Ukraine war. On February 26, Macron hinted at the possibility of NATO troops entering Ukraine by stating that ...

One of Russia’s specialties is to create fake bomb threats, Lieutenant Colonel Vitaly Pankov of the Kyiv Cyber Police told me in a Zoom interview. They develop fake accounts, simulating schools, ...

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 ...

We easily understand things that we can see. But some things are invisible. To understand those, we create mind models, or narratives. Sometimes, we create mind models that, in hindsight, turn out to ...