Month: March 2026

By Alicia Lucas   It’s hard to imagine the delicate balance Minnesota, USA, residents-turned-protesters must have gone through each day. Waking up, carefully but forcefully protesting the utter wrongness of it all, fearing someone’s, or […]

On 27 February 2026, the night before the bombs fell, Oman’s foreign minister, Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, announced that a breakthrough had been reached. After months of back-channel diplomacy, Iran had agreed to never […]

We’re paying more for packaging than the product – and it’s costing us the planet. You go to the supermarket to buy food. You come home with plastic, cardboard, film, trays, wraps, seals, labels, inserts […]

By James Moore (We seem to have skipped spring down here in Texas and slipped directly into the 90s. The summer is likely to be more searing than ever, but the sun is still slowly […]

The Arabic name for the strait is Maḍīq Hurmuz. One theory derives “Hormuz” from the local Persian word Hur-Mogh, meaning “Place of Dates,” but the dominant scholarly etymology traces it through Middle Persian to the Zoroastrian god […]

Introduction: A Study in Contrasts Donald Trump is one of the richest men ever to hold the U.S. presidency, with a net worth estimated at $3.9 billion – more than 99.9 per cent of American […]

Joe Kent, the now former US Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, always seemed a bit off, especially to liberals. As a combat veteran of MAGA pedigree, he found favour with President Donald J. Trump, […]

We have been asking the wrong question about artificial intelligence. For several years now, the dominant public debate has revolved around a familiar set of concerns. Will AI take jobs? Will it spread misinformation? Will […]

How Trump Walked Into the Trap Mearsheimer Spent Twenty Years Mapping John Mearsheimer sees war with Iran as a strategic folly, arguing it is unwinnable, will not destroy Iran’s nuclear knowledge, and could, instead, boost […]

By Niu Honglin A few days ago, while working on this mini podcast series, I found myself scrolling through what looked like a very typical “weekend recommendation” post – until I realized none of it was […]