American led international sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine were but a continuation of earlier sanctions that started in 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea. Belarus has also…

For the first time in a generation, there is a war waging in Europe. In the early morning hours of Thursday, February 24th, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation”…

Ayah Galal, an American journalist of Egyptian origin, became the firsthijabinews anchor in Connecticut, USA, this month where she works for WFSB News. Galal spoke about her enthusiasm for the…

American exceptionalism is an idea or, more precisely, a doctrine that believes that the US is inherently different from past and present countries as it has a transcendent moral purpose. Unlike the…

World Bank has rejected El Salvador’s decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, noting that it would have dire economic consequences. It refused to provide any kind of assistance for the country’s…

The unprecedented global challenges that the United States faces today—climate change, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, massive economic inequality, terrorism, corruption, authoritarianism—are…

On June 8, gunmen shot dead 10 Afghans working for the international demining organization the Halo Trust in an attack on their camp in the north of the country. While Halo did not officially blame…

On June 14th NATO held its 31st summit in Brussels. On the surface, at least, it looks like the transatlantic community is back on the same page, to its pre-Trump posture of “unity, solidarity, and…

The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) was launched in 2015 as a massive infrastructure investment project involving 12 European countries from the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Sea regions. Austria, Bulgaria…

Shared transnational challenges are supposed to bring the world together. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, has done the opposite, exposing the shortcomings of the structures that govern global health…