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Excerpted from Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia by Malise Ruthven (Verso Books, 2025) Saudi iden¬tity is...

Late one Friday night, just weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump (likely illegally) fired more than a dozen inspectors general,...

Not long before he was gunned down by the Chicago police in 1969, Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black...

One Thursday night in October, I noticed a man in his mid-twenties sitting alone at a Pennsylvania brewery where I...

Following last June’s European Union (EU) elections, Italy again has a party in the EU-wide Left group. This presence owes...

At a rainy protest in front of Senator Chuck Schumer’s office in midtown Manhattan Thursday, the target could be identified...

For most of human history, a simple axiom for survival seemed to prevail: Don’t build houses where there is too...

The chemical industry is asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), now helmed by industry-friendly Donald Trump appointee Lee Zeldin, to hide chemical...

French premier François Bayrou forced approval of his 2025 budget this week, using a special constitutional power known as Article...

On the same day Jeff Bezos sat in the front row of the inauguration (that Amazon helped finance), his retail giant...

Review of Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (Princeton University Press, 2024) The past few months have been...

The dollar’s role as the world’s key currency is generally viewed as a boon for the US economy. President Donald...