Tom Nichols is one of America’s leading intellectuals, political and cultural commentators, and experts on international security, Russia, threats to democracy, and nuclear policy. Nichols is a staff ...

Fifty years ago, on April 13, 1975, the Lebanese Civil War officially began. The war devastated Lebanon’s economy, infrastructure, and social structure, and culminated in a sectarian model of ...

The shift to the Latin script was arguably a pragmatic decision—aligning Azerbaijan with other Turkic nations that had adopted the Latin alphabet (such as Turkish, Uzbek, and Turkmen, with ongoing ...

Steven Brown has dedicated more than three decades to serving as the executive director of the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Prior to his long tenure in Rhode ...

Josh Pacewicz is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University. His research examines the creation of the American state and subnational governance, particularly the ...

The Indian state’s manipulation of social media platforms was also particularly evident during the height of the 2020-2021 Indian Farmers’ Protests. The backlash began when the BJP, in an attempt to ...

US Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is Michigan’s newly elected junior senator. After serving three successive terms representing Michigan’s 7th and 8th Congressional districts, she outperformed Kamala ...

In early 2025, California faced a series of devastating wildfires that ravaged vast areas of the state—particularly its southern regions. Two weeks after the fires broke out in Los Angeles, President ...

In 2015, El Salvador presided as the “ murder capital of the world ” with the highest number of homicides per capita; today, it is one of the safest countries in Latin America, with a homicide rate ...

As wildfires raze entire neighborhoods, currents pull coastal villages into the Atlantic, and hurricanes displace more and more people each year, homeowners face a grim reality: The costs of climate ...

Public policy attempts to reduce tobacco use have met varying degrees of success. In 2019, Sweden became the only country in Europe to ban smoking in the outdoor seating areas of bars and restaurants.

Backed by the leaf’s historical significance to Bolivia’s Indigenous populations and heritage, deregulating coca has come to represent an impassioned movement for anti-imperialist influence in the ...