A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New Possessions.” Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against stylized stars and stripes.

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FOR the best part of the past decade overly simplistic polemic has abounded with regard to Pakistan’s relationship with the US.

THE CONVERSATION — The war being waged by Russia in Ukraine has been described in many ways – an attempt to recreate the USSR, a militant attempt to create a new Eurasia civilization, or a ...

Ukrainian People Are Resisting the Centuries-Old Force of Russian Imperialism. A man rides his bicycle next to a destroyed Russian tank in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 21, 2022.

One Soviet-era joke went like this: the worker Ivanov “borrows” a set of spare parts from the stroller factory to make a buggy for his kid. After hours of work he turns in frustration to his ...

The United Nations' poor record regarding both Jews and Israel, with its consistently pro-Arab bias, is too well known to require further elucidation.

When the citizens of the Dutch town of Naarden surrendered to imperial Spanish troops in December 1572, they did so with the assurance that their lives and property would be safeguarded. But once ...