What would be the response of the United States if 21 of our citizens (noncombatants) were murdered by a foreign navy off our shores in four separate incidents? The foreign power says the citizens ...

Lawyers for Utahns challenging the state’s congressional boundaries say there is “jarring irony” in the Legislature’s insistence on the recreation of an independent redistricting commission to aid in ...

Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, calls the US decision to potentially provide Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine a welcome “escalation”, one that has clearly unsettled Vladimir ...

A good album cover is one that makes a grand statement. One that serves as an extension of the art, a storytelling device that draws you in before you’ve even heard a word. Some, like Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are witnessing one of their worst border clashes in years amid heavy exchange of fire from both sides following Islamabad's red line on ...

"If you were looking at genuine humanitarian work, it is surely the Prince and Princess of Wales with their work for Heads Together, the initiative from the Royal Foundation, who ought to be ...

Introduction. Comprehending an ironic remark requires (i) detecting speaker’s meaning, which is typically the opposite of sentence’s meaning and (ii) inferring speaker’s mocking attitude (Winner 1997) ...

Sir Keir Starmer, inflating himself like something rubbery and faintly spermicidal, told Kemi Badenoch she was not a ‘serious statesperson’. He later repeated this devastating charge when he used, ...

After more than a decade of hearing Democrats and progressives bloviate about how Donald Trump is an authoritarian just like Adolf Hitler, there’s a certain irony to the fact that the president just ...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for ...

Expect the unexpected. Nothing is as it seems. Can a hand pump spout a gardener’s shears, or an axe wear a clothes iron as a hat? Can a sitar come with a showerhead and a trumpet with a tap? And yet, ...

In the modern history of economic policymaking, few institutions evoke as much debate as the International Monetary Fund. Bangladesh, in the aftermath of its 2022 dollar crisis and the ensuing ...