When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to become the Switzerland of Central Asia that the Swiss ambassador once joked ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

Years of sanctions have substantially weakened the Iranian economy, as evidenced by Iran’s keenness to have them cancelled, ...

There are two options for criminals in a democracy who don’t want to go to jail. The first is to launch a large-scale campaign to legalise whatever crime it is that you want to commit. This is hard, ...

The girl in the black Audrey Hepburn dress was crying in the bathroom, mascara running down her cheeks. We found her by chance—a total stranger using the bathroom of a hotel where we were hosting a ...

It was 2014, and I was standing in the ruins of Donetsk airport, when a Russian-backed rebel commander launched into what seemed like an oddly academic lecture. Between bursts of artillery fire, he ...

Among Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, all signed in the first week of his new term, perhaps the one with the most far-reaching impact was also one of the least talked about and scrutinized.

Kim Stanley Robinson, London, 2014. Will Ireland/SFX Magazine/Future via Getty Images. An avid sci-fi fan, Musk says he will send the first ship to colonize the red planet by the end of this decade.

Protestors in Tbilisi, Georgia holding a poster that reads, “Do not fear! We will win honorably.” May, 2024. Photo Leli Blagonravova. The very nature of Russian colonialism doesn’t fit the Western ...

Frantz Fanon at a writers’ conference in Tunis. 1959. Wikimedia Commons. Yet Fanon himself had a fervent belief in new departures. In his writing, as well as in his work as a doctor and a ...

Police forces stand between counter-protesters and a pro-Palestine rally in Cologne, Germany on November 1, 2023. Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Following the October 7 assault in which Hamas ...