It was in a trattoria on the Piazza Navona in early April of 1974 that for the first but not the last time I heard Gabriel ...

In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise called Payambar-e Azam ...

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Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic ...

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Let's review. 2024 was an especially violent year. It was also the hottest on record. While most countries exist in high ...

On January 20th, 2025, the Presidential Inauguration will fall on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Reflections on King reveal ...

The final missions of Army Sergeants Mathew Livelsberger and Shamsud-Din Jabbar left millions of other Americans scratching their heads.  Why would two much-saluted young men—who served their country ...

I'm a natural born cynic, of course, but I can't help but think that this ceasefire, this lull in the killing, is meant to erase, if not the memory of, at least the responsibility for, the killing ...

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Introduction: A New Global Land Rush Of the major social and economic trends of the twenty-first century—a long and distinguished list that includes ...