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One Huge Post-Pandemic Shift for Retail Workers?

Retail jobs are among the most common in the U.S. economy. During the pandemic, these workers have been face-to-face with the shopping masses likely to be carrying and spreading COVID-19. So when…

Nate Berg 29 January 2022
European Council President Charles Michel attends a meeting via video link at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, September 29, 2021. Stephanie Lecocq/Pool via REUTERS

Are Europe's Africa Strategies Faltering?

Since the beginning of this year, Europe has been working on several fronts to revive its relationship with Africa, in general, and North African countries, in particular. Most of the new European…

Dalia Ziada 01 October 2021
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Kundera App Developer Promises Content Creators: "Our Next Project Guarantees Profits"

If you are a researcher, journalist, or a media user, you must have heard of at least one of the following phrases: digital media, new media and digital search techniques according to Search Engine…

Latifa El Hassanyeh 25 September 2021
Brazilian soccer legend Pele is seen in Paris, April 2, 2019. Picture taken April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo

Pele Recovering in Hospital Following Removal of Tumour

Brazil soccer great Pele said on Monday that he was recovering in hospital from surgery to remove a tumour from his colon. Pele, the only player to win three World Cups, did not say whether the…

06 September 2021
A graduate walks past chairs during a socially distanced graduation ceremony held outdoors because of the Covid-19 pandemic at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia on May 13, 2021.(TNS)

You Shouldn't Need a College Degree to Have a Decent Life in America

A young person who wants to go into hotel management typically needs a bachelor's degree. Or at least, that's true here. Not so in Switzerland, where a high school student would attend classes part…

Karin Klein 05 July 2021
More than 50% of female faculty and staff experienced sexually harassing behavior in academic science and medicine, according to a 2018 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. (TNS)

For Women in Science, ‘Visibility’ Isn’t Always a Good Thing

One of my mentees, a young doctor, laughed when I recently told her how two of my adult daughters crawled across the bedroom floor to take a photo of my computer screen because Golden State Warriors…

Margaret Handley 04 July 2021
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Energy infrastructure attacks and the new security imperative

17 March 2026

By attacking Gulf energy infrastructure, Iran aims to apply economic and geopolitical pressure as a way to avoid large-scale conflict

Jessica Obeid
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Decapitation strikes unlikely to topple Iran's regime

18 March 2026

Instead of taking down the Islamic Republic, what the assassinations have done is harden public support and accelerate the regime's militarisation

Alex Vatanka
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Strait of Hormuz: the waterway critical to global trade 

18 March 2026

Any disruption in the Hormuz has cascading knock-on effects that extend far beyond energy markets, impacting international trade. Al Majalla explores all this and more.

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The Israel lobby’s responsibility for the Iran war

17 March 2026

Advocates for the US-Israeli special relationship have played a special role

Stephen M. Walt
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Could the US-Iran war spark World War III?

16 March 2026

The current conflict is unlikely to go global for now, but the speed at which it has spread regionally is alarming. A look at history shows the geopolitical factors that led to world wars.

Christopher Phillips

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