As Donald Trump takes the oath of office again, the world watches with a sense that, this time, those outside the U.S. have a ...

President Biden’s longtime aide rallied scores of nations to defend Ukraine, but then became a villain to the many critics of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

My assumption that humanist academics were all on the left was foolish, of course. But so was my defeatist certainty that ...

"One day, my grandson said to me, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war? And I said to him, 'No, I'm not a hero, but I have ...

Elon Musk and MAGA are already disrupting the status quo, and Europe seems ill-prepared. For the last decade or more, ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestions that international borders can be redrawn — by force if necessary — are ...

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Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more ...

The Netherlands has published a database with the names of almost half a million Dutch people who are suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during the country’s WWII occupation. The 'War in ...

The United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR, projected Europe's forcibly displaced and stateless population to increase by 2 percent to 24.9 million people in 2024, and its effect was felt everywhere.

This is totally delusional: Ukraine now possesses one of the largest defense industries in all of Europe and would never agree to dismantling it now. The vast majority of American people support ...