The donation of $1.6 billion from an obscure businessman “transformed Leo into a power broker who could steer the ...

Following the assassination of Nasrallah on September 27 and the killing of more than 1,000 other people over the last two ...

A year after the October 7 attacks in Israel, no end to Israel’s war is on the horizon. This week’s reading list compiles ...

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Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at ...

The month is May 1916. In southern Galicia, now Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War I, a twenty-seven-year-old Austrian volunteers for duty in an observation post exposed to enemy gunfire. He ...

My father slept on his side. On a cot one foot off the floor with a pillow between bony knees. As a young boy he toppled from the top of a slide and smashed his femur. In his telling, he landed ...

Elaine Scarry is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. She is author of many books, including Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between ...

Kieran Setiya teaches philosophy at MIT. His latest book is Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way.

A terse telegram from Dar es Salaam first alerted Barclays Bank in London of the unexpected and immediate nationalization of its local subsidiary in Tanzania. “We are advised full compensation will be ...