Asia’s two largest and most diverse democracies held national elections in recent weeks, and religious tolerance was on the ballot in both. Voters, however, delivered diametrically opposed verdicts. …

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Perhaps the reason we’re no longer able to see into the future like the great writers of the twentieth century, is that we’re in our own version of what they predicted. …

Bagehot: The Life andTimesof the Greatest Victorian.James Grant. Norton, 2019. 368pp. InJames Grant, it sometimes seems, the nineteenth century has been resuscitated. Towering, gaunt, bow…

The city walls are scarred with bullet holes and burn marks. Tattered camouflage netting hangs like moss over defunct fighter posts and the Moorish archways of the marketplace. The cries of hungry…

InVenezuela, a humanitarian crisis is coming to a boil. The country’s GDP has shrunk by double digits over the past few years, annual inflation runs to more than 80,000 percent, and 90 percent of the…

The Northern Irish Troubles, relative to their scale, are the most studied conflict in modern history. They took place in a province the size ofConnecticutwith a population of around 1.6 million…

​ Early Life Jürgen Klopp was born on June 16, 1967, in Stuttgart, West Germany. His father, Norbert, was a traveling salesman and showed the potential of becoming a…

Over the course of 10 letters, Yossi Klein Halevi, a bestselling author and researcher on Jewish and…

The Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution inMyanmarfor decades. And yet no violence in their recent history has compared to that which theMyanmarmilitary inflicted inAugust 2017. After militants…