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What does an autocrat do when his support base is shaken by popular protests? The standard answer is: he tries to reassure supporters by increasing their privileges, thus giving them a bigger stake in the preservation of the status quo. This is what Islamic Republic’s “Supreme Guide”…

Many commentators from across the globe have posed this question in different forms. The majority considered it “a political signing” aimed at enhancing Saudi Arabia’s reputation” rather than a sports deal. Assuming we accept this argument, a follow-up question becomes important. Clean it of what? …

Dada is not a word used to coddle children. It is something else born in “Cabaret Voltaire” in Zurich in 1916. Lenin resided and planned his revolution in the same alley, just a few meters away, James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses.’ With the First World War raging at the time, European artists were…

A failed Operation Eagle Claw in 1980 was the United States’ first and last attack on Iranian soil. At the time, the US Government planned a supposedly surprise military attack to free American hostages stuck in their embassy in Tehran. They used an aircraft carrier, fighter jets, military cargo…

It seems that we are looking at a strategic shift in the way Israel deals with the Iranian regime, not only with regard to the nuclear issue but also the “fake heroics” of Tehran through its use of regional militias, like Hezbollah and Hamas. An Israeli drone attack was launched against…

Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has a plan for the new year. In a speech in early January, he set out an agenda to resuscitate the country and save the Conservative Party, now in free fall. “We will halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce debt, cut waiting lists and stop the boats,” he…

It’s well established that the European Union has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world, threatening fines of up to 4% of a company’s annual turnover. A lesser-known fact, and one which large tech firms would like to keep quiet, is that the EU hasn’t enforced those rules very strictly. …

I read most of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recently published memoirs “Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love.” The book is full of insights into a sensitive period during which the media unfortunately pushed a leftist agenda, falsifying facts, misleading the people, and…

On April 3, 1968, shortly before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would deliver what turned out to be his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” at a Memphis church packed with striking sanitation workers, the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., a local minister and national strategist of nonviolent…

The anxious young man invited his parents to a frank discussion. He said that he loves Lebanon dearly, but decided to quit it. He explained that the decision was painful for him and the family, but that he made it after much thought. He said he would knock on the doors of all embassies,…

The layoff announcements coming lately from the chief executive officers of big technology companies all contain variations on the theme of “we hired too many people during the pandemic,” expressed with varying degrees of contrition. At one end of the spectrum are Seattleites Andy Jassy of…

The possibility that a Covid infection could damage your brain is terrifying. Scientists have established that long Covid often manifests itself with neurological changes — brain fog, memory problems, fatigue. And some researchers have found changes in the brain after even mild cases of the virus…