People have long assumed that autocrats and dictators have an advantage in waging war. Today, as the novel coronavirus sweeps across the globe, there…
Pete Reynolds
After years of wrangling since the referendum in 2016, theUnited Kingdomformally left theEuropean Unionat the end of January. “Leavers” were jubilant…
During one of theBalkanwars in the 1990s, a group of senior officials met in theWhite House Situation Roomand listened to a proposal for…
The current political process in Lebanon bears similarities with Lebanese “zajal” festivals, which used to be shown (and perhaps they are still…
Former US ambassador to Germany and current Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, has been working closely with German authorities…
The people residing in Manaus, a city situated in the Brazilian Amazon, have been living through a daily horror story. Everyday, mass graves are dug…
A hospital in India demanded Muslim patients and their attendants prove they didn’t have Covid-19 before being admitted for treatment. The privately…
The Iranian leadership’s difficulties in coping with the coronavirus pandemic have grown increasingly stark, as internal documents indicate an…
Across the world, governments are embarking on enormous experiments as they work out how to exit their coronavirus lockdowns and resume economic…
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A herder drives camels on Badain Jaran Desert on May 1, 2020 in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Getty)
A visitor in a plexiglass lock talks to a resident at Les Jardins d'Astrid, a rest home in Maurage, La Louviere, on April 29, 2020, as the visits to residents of rest homes are possible from today in Wallonia. (Getty)
Students eat their lunch on desks with plastic partitions as a preventive measure to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at Dajia Elementary School in Taipei on April 29, 2020. (Getty)
Resident Johanna Pfeiffer, 96, looks on from her room as singer Alf Weiss performs live at the Hermann Radtke Haus nursing home during the novel coronavirus crisis on April 29, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Getty)
Lisa Fascilla, with children Nina and Alex receive a beer delivery from Karen and Mark Heuwetter and their two dogs Buddy and Barley on May 03, 2020 in Huntington Village, New York. (Getty)
Protesters rally from their cars as they call for the state to lift stay-at-home orders and reopen the economy in downtown Richmond, Virginia near the State Capitol complex on May 6, 2020.(Getty)
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