On July 23, 2025, the world of theater dimmed as Ratan Thiyam, the visionary playwright, director and cultural luminary, took his final bow at the age of 77 in Imphal’s Regional Institute of Medical ...

As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

My collegiate tennis journey started in April 2018. The head coach of the University of Missouri tennis team contacted me in Hungary, offering a scholarship and a spot on his team. It was a dream come ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...

The Shah led a famously dissolute life, visiting nightclubs across Europe and chasing beautiful actresses. One of them was Grace Kelly who became the Princess Grace of Monaco in 1956. The Shah spent ...

China's economy is grappling with a mounting debt crisis, particularly at the local government level, driven by fiscal deficits, shrinking land revenues and implicit debt burdens. This article ...

Of all of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, DC. He is the ...

Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...

Western imperialism persists through economic sanctions, military interventions and control over global resources, as seen in Venezuela and Iran. Nations with strong ideological commitment, like Iran, ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat mayoral candidate for New York, has caught the fancy of many around the world. Yet when we take a closer look at him, the 33-year-old does not appear so wonderful. If ...

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...

Today, Iran is ruled by a theocratic regime. It is easy to blame the mullahs for all of Iran’s ills. However, it is an inconvenient truth that their path to power was paved by the British and the ...