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The Death of Western Values
Newsweek· 2 days agoKenneth Griffin, a billionaire investor, recently urged Harvard University, his alma mater, to reaffirm its commitment to "Western values." The West once...
4,000 historic French state dinner menus up for auction
AFP via Yahoo News· 7 days ago...offered a unique insight into 150 years of diplomatic and gastronomic history on Wednesday.They...
‘I took an oath to do no harm’: The two doctors wrestling over Fauci’s legacy
Washington Post· 3 days agoBrad Wenstrup was alarmed. It was February 2020, weeks before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered...
Soldiers in Ukraine say US-supplied tanks have made them targets for Russian strikes
CNN.com· 7 days agoCNN journalists were the first reporters to see the M1 Abrams in Ukraine, at a location in the...
Opinion: Do we still understand how wars are won? | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 6 days agoIn the past 50 years, the United States has gotten good at losing wars. All this was part of a...
The U.S. Needs a New Purpose in the Middle East
Foreign Policy Magazine· 2 days agoWhen we arrived at the gates of Iraq’s Bardarash refugee camp in December 2019, the emotional pain of the scene leveled me: Cold, wind-swept rain fell as...
Opinion | US vs ICC: tensions over Israel spotlight history of awkward, fraught ties
South China Morning Post· 3 days agoSince the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in fact, the US has continually displayed its support for the...
‘Strangers in their own land’: Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoDuring my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2019, I witnessed how this festival brings joy to the displaced Yazidis as they celebrate with family and friends and ...
The Twenty-First Century Executive Branch Is a Criminogenic Environment | naked capitalism
Naked Capitalism· 2 days agoAlexander Hamilton's "energy in the Executive" has a downside.
‘Strangers in their own land’: Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide
Stamford Advocate· 1 day agoDuring my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2019, I witnessed how this festival brings joy to the displaced Yazidis as they celebrate with family and friends and ...