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The looming American debt crisis is politically contrived. The Treasury could borrow all it needed if the Republican majority in the House acted responsibly and raised the debt ceiling. But the notion that if the House fails to come to agreement the United States faces a default on its debt…

The Ukrainians and the Russians exchanged blame over the attack on Nova Kakhovka dam in an area in Kherson (southern Ukraine) controlled by Russia. The attack reminds us of the scale of the troubling predicament Russia now finds itself in. It is a troubling predicament because Russia’s war on…

Do we have the right, in light of our contemporary sensibilities, to change history books and literary works and essays? Is it appropriate, for example, to replace the racist adjectives that Al-Mutabnabbi had attributed to Abu al-Misk Kafur with different ones, or to remove Shakespeare’s character,…

Matt Richtel, Catherine Pearson and Michael Levenson The United States' top health official issued an extraordinary public warning last month about the risks of social media to young people, urging a push to fully understand the possible “harm to the mental health and well-being of children and…

There is probably no figure quite like Edmund Burke in the Arab world today. The 18th-century Irish-British who, to a large extent, laid the foundations of conservative political thought through his critique of the French Revolution, developed a philosophy that advocates gradual change rather than…

Just how conservative is the Catholic Church? So conservative that, when Pope Francis recently said that homosexuality is a sin but not a crime, observers (correctly) took that for progress. The connection between Catholicism and conservatism runs deep. It goes back to at least the Counter…

In a previous article, we asked whether a new regional order awaited us in the Middle East after paths of normalization had begun to be paved in the region. These paths are being taken at divergent speeds, with the factors governing each normalization process and their mediation mechanisms…

During World War II, Albert Camus and the “Combat” newspaper he edited, which spoke for the French resistance, were among the hardliners calling for a “purge,” that is, handing those who collaborated with the Nazi occupation the most severe sentences possible. On the other end of the spectrum was…

The boxer is unashamed of bruises. It pains him to be struck to the ground. It kills him to be thrown out of the ring. For the boxer, retirement means death. The picture could have been different. The voters could have let him down. He could have made a swift exit from the massive palace after…

Jamal Al-Keshky The war in Sudan broke out nearly fifty days ago. Considerations and figures have been changing by the day. Fatalities and casualties increase, the humanitarian crises exacerbate, hope is pinned on Arab and international mediations, and the level of fear rises. In mirrors…

“Easy does it!” These days in Tehran the phrase seems to have become the guideline for a ruling elite that has realized it can no longer go about its shenanigans at no cost. Almost six months of on-and-off protests virtually everywhere has persuaded the “Supreme Guide” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…

According to a recent report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Azerbaijan became the second-largest importer of Israeli weaponry between 2018 and 2022. Purchasing 9.1 percent of Israeli arms exports, it came second to India, which purchased 37 percent. The Philippines (8.5…