by Charles Pierson
Ending months of speculation, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on January 10 that the Trump Administration would designate Yemen’s Houthi rebels (Ansar Allah) as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” (FTO).
Branding the Houthis as terrorists will make it...
Kathomi Gatwiri
Highly skilled Black African professionals report experiences of racial microaggressions at work are common and are expressed in a variety of ways. My recent study published in the British Journal of Social Work has found workplaces can be...
RICK BAUM
f money is the source of happiness, and having more money means more happiness, some of our multi-billionaire friends have reached unprecedented levels of happiness in recent years especially during the pandemic when their level of wealth has...
Layla Riahi Hamza Hamouchene
A new report from the Transnational Institute suggests free trade does nothing but drain Tunisia’s wealth.
Tunisia has undergone radical changes in the past decade, and faces more in the years to come, if...
Public opinion polling in the Arab world suggests that autocratic leaders like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed, have gotten some things right.
Both men have to varying degrees replaced religion with nationalism...
With national polls showing Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in key battleground states, the president is acting irrationally and deploying his cabinet secretaries and departments to influence next month’s election. Trump has used most of the past four years...
For the past several decades, the United States has been the world’s leading producer of major weapons systems and the leader in global arms sales. More of these sales have taken place in the globe’s most volatile region, the...
A close read of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel suggests that the Jewish state has won far more than diplomatic recognition. It won acknowledgement of its claim to historic Jewish rights. By the same token,...
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The enduring conflict scenario in West Asia—at the heart of which is the Israel-Palestine issue—creates pangs of angst and pinpricks to many. The long-running question is if it could be resolved any time soon or...
There is a commonly-held view that the current crisis in capitalism, which has resulted in a massive output contraction and increase in unemployment, is because of the pandemic; and that once the pandemic gets over, things will go back...
