In recent years, Western countries have been very reliant on sanctions as a tool of foreign policy and I think it’s a mistake. It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say that sanctions are law ...

Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea showed how spreading a narrative can erode sovereignty. The same playbook can now be seen ...

Myanmar’s authoritarian rulers are holding “sham” elections in the midst of civil war in a bid for global recognition ...

The rumor spread like a storm. One moment it was a whisper in a small Ohio town; the next, it was tearing across newspaper headlines and through talk shows nationwide: Haitians in Springfield were ...

In the criminal world, a key statistic has indeed suggested that for several years European crooks have been falling behind.

Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway to investigate a sordid accusation: Someone had called the police department and ...

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was worried about food trucks. At a festival for Belarusians in exile in Poland this summer, Belarus’ most important dissident had to answer for a lack of Belarusian catering.

“I once had an idea in the back of my mind to leave this place and go abroad,” Besmir Billa told me earlier this year as we sipped tea in the town of Kukes, not far from Albania’s Accursed Mountains. ...

The healthcare landscape is changing fast thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence. These technologies have shifted decision-making power away from nurses and on to the robots. Michael ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...