The Trump administration’s bid to trigger snapback sanctions through the UN has thrown into sharp relief the already grim economic predicament gripping Tehran. Senior officials are publicly…
Opponents of economic globalization often point to the ways it has widened inequality within nations in recent decades. Inthe United States, for instance, wages have remained fairly stagnant since…
In recent years, academics and policymakers inthe United Stateshave struggled with an economic mystery. Why, even as theU.S.economy has grown in the past few decades, have wages remained relatively…
On Thursday, Secretary Pompeo formally initiated the mechanism known as “snapback sanctions,” a feature of the 2015 JCPOA and its sister UN resolution, UNSCR 2231, in a bid to reimpose UN sanctions…
In the 1960s, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing complained that the dominance of theU.S.dollar gavethe United Statesan "exorbitant privilege" to borrow cheaply from the rest of the…
Extreme wildfires savagedNorthern Californiain 2018, leaving the homeless to camp out in a Home Depot parking lot inOakland, not far from the billionaire hub ofSilicon Valley. Hurricane Irma…
The Arcticis so remote, so cut off from the rest of the world, that at times it appears to defy the normal rules of politics. Relations betweenthe United StatesandRussia, for example, have been…
Egypt-born Mahmood Al Durrah has been making waves in the fitness industry since he won the Canadian Nationals as a middle weight in 2012. From then, he has won several titles and competed in the…
As parts ofthe United Statesbegin to open up after months of coronavirus lockdown, hope is rising that some semblance of economic normalcy could be on the near-term horizon. That hope could still be…
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed climate change from the headlines, but it has hardly arrested it. In the last month, the warmingIndian Oceanhas encouraged swarms of locusts to hop fromEast…
Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players
The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.
Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.