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Fifty years ago, on April 13, 1975, the Lebanese Civil War officially began. The war devastated Lebanon’s economy, infrastructure, and social structure, and culminated in a sectarian model of ...

US Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is Michigan’s newly elected junior senator. After serving three successive terms representing Michigan’s 7th and 8th Congressional districts, she outperformed Kamala ...

Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and ...

Speaker Johnson will make political decisions informed by his faith, and he is not trying to hide this fact.

The year is 1979. A young senator from Delaware walks into the Kremlin to discuss nuclear arms control amid the Cold War. He would go on to be an outspoken advocate for nuclear nonproliferation and ...

Tom Nichols on past and future elections, Ukraine and Israel aid policy debates, and growing polarization in America.

Beside my grandparents’ apartment door stands a potted plant with a note to fellow building occupants, handwritten in Azerbaijani by my grandfather: “Бура кул габы деjил,” or “This is not an ashtray.” ...

The first mental illness attributed to women, and one of the most prolific for four millennia, was so-called “female hysteria.” An amalgamation of symptoms that would be considered both mood and ...

South Korea is in desperate need of chaebol and constitutional reform to put an end to the cycle of corruption.

Steven Brown has dedicated more than three decades to serving as the executive director of the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Prior to his long tenure in Rhode ...

China’s domestic economy has faced persistent struggles since the collapse of a property bubble in 2021, marked by the downfall of Evergrande—once the world’s most valuable property developer. The ...