Philanthropist is a great word, deriving as it does from an ancient Greek term for “love of humankind”. In theory it could ...

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Trump’s Alaska summit was more than diplomatic theater, it exposed how authoritarians weaponize our collective amnesia to reshape narratives and seize control ...

There are now several books about the 2007-8 financial crisis, the best of which, in my opinion, is Adam Tooze’s ‘Crashed’.

Missouri librarians fear prosecution under Senate Bill 775, a new law ordering jail time for distributing “sexually explicit material” to minors.

Professors have been debating how to teach imperialism and colonialism in Russia and the wider region since the invasion.

An underground network of wildlife enthusiasts and their billionaire backers claim they’re restoring Europe’s biodiversity. But some scientists say they could destroy it.

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In most of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge fell in 1979 when Vietnamese troops toppled the regime. The Vietnamese occupied most of the country throughout the 1980s, hailed by some as liberators and others ...

Meet the Russian neo-Nazis fighting for Ukraine. Russian ultranationalists confronted their own government on the battlefields of Ukraine.