China's housing market is unraveling - and it’s not just Evergrande. This video reveals how decades of overbuilding, ...

On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

WhatsApp, Instagram, and Amazon are powerful, but they're pigeon-holed compared to their Chinese equivalents, which drive ...

The Sinaloa Cartel, the world’s most-feared fentanyl trafficker, is reeling from an internal war and a U.S.-Mexican crackdown ...

As I wrote in several articles, my sojourn in Europe was a culture shock on many levels . The most profound was how Europeans ...

More than half a century ago, China built the first modern bridge across the Yangtze River in Wuhan. In the early 90s, it was ...

At the height of its power, Islam once controlled vast territories: from Morocco to China and from Russia down to sub-Saharan Africa. The rise of the European colonial empires, notably those of ...

The scope of the work is enormous. The premise is that as recently as 1928, 12 modern nations - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ...

The Ancient Greeks may have had it better than we do in 2025. Imagine a world where leaders sought answers from a priestess instead of “experts.” From the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE, the ...

Once pragmatic allies under the geopolitical pragmatism of the Shah’s Iran, the two nations are now locked in a theological and strategic standoff with global implications. Understanding this rivalry ...

Events are moving fast. Seven days ago, as I write, Israel had not yet launched its first attacks on targets in Iran. Seven ...

Most explanations of the Naga revolt view Phizo’s movement through the lens of secessionism but it is perhaps more useful to ...