A growing number of older adults have something to smile about: research shows they're keeping their teeth longer. While that makes chewing and…

ISISis down but not out. InMarch 2019,U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces captured the group’s last territorial stronghold in theMiddle East, the…

The Capital.Robert Menasse. Translated byJamie Bulloch.. Liveright, 2019. 416pp.TheEuropean Unionmay well be the most ambitious…

A crisis in Iraq has reached the gates of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and presented a critical test of the administration’s resolve in confronting…

On January 2, Turkey’s parliament approved by a large majority a controversial bill that allows troops to be deployed to Libya in support of the…

It was only yesterday when the Arab states were mired in the prospects of a possible conflict with Turkey, as the motion to send troops to Libya was…

Over the last year and a half, politicians and activists have spent more than $900 million pumping 5.7 million ads through Facebook’s network. Is…

How Dictatorships Work.Barbara Geddes,Joseph Wright,Erica Frantz.Cambridge University Press, 2018. 270pp. The world is in an illiberal phase. In…

In November, French PresidentEmmanuel MacrontoldThe EconomistthatNATOso lacked direction that it was suffering “brain death.” The remark drew…

Abdelmejid Tebboune was born on 17 November 1945, in Mishriah (Naama province), southwest of the Algerian Republic. He graduated from the…