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…

Hotter heatwaves, higher sea levels and more severe droughts: This is the sweltering reality in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where climate change is an especially urgent issue. By 2030,…

At the beginning of the new year, Boris Johnson tweeted a photo of himself giving two thumbs up, with a caption that read: “This is going to be a fantastic year for Britain.” Little did he know, in…

In Syria, 1,000 pounds in the national currency can get you five walnuts. A state employee’s monthly salary barely buys 4 pounds of meat. Prices change every day — almost always upward — in what few…