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For two hundred years, Ukraine and Russia have conflicted over
For two hundred years, Ukraine and Russia have conflicted over Ukraines history and sovereignty. Recently the Kremlin has tried to rebrand large regio...

Americans have never needed an expert class to guide their taste
Americans have never needed an expert class to guide their taste in art. Mark Twain said “My books are like water, those of the great geniuses are w...

A FEW months ago Barack Obama declared that al-Qaeda was “on the
A FEW months ago Barack Obama declared that al-Qaeda was “on the path to defeat”. Its surviving members, he said, were more concerned for their ow...

Nowhere is our inability to grasp the realities of Middle-Eastern
Nowhere is our inability to grasp the realities of Middle-Eastern politics more obvious than in our self-deceiving attitude towards the theocracy in I...

It is said that when famed Austrian diplomat Klemens von
It is said that when famed Austrian diplomat Klemens von Metternich heard of the death of the Turkish ambassador, he said, "I wonder what he meant by ...

In Elysium, one of the more notable box office failures in a
In Elysium, one of the more notable box office failures in a disastrous summer for Hollywood, Matt Damon plays a down-on-his-luck ex-con in a dystopia...

Italy is in the middle of another existential political crisis --
Italy is in the middle of another existential political crisis -- and somehow, against all expectations, Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister,...