A New Multi-literalism
How the United States can rejuvenate the global institutions it created – By Gordon Brown America is back.” That was the message from U.S. President Joe Biden, the most internationalist of recent U.S. presidents,...
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Niger’s Coup and America’s Choice
Washington Should Push for Mediation, Not Military Intervention – By Hannah Rae Armstrong On July 26, Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum was detained at his home by his own presidential security force. Within 48 hours,...
Twitter Rival, Threads, Records 10 Million Users Within Hours of Launch
More than 10 million people have signed up for Threads, Meta’s rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. The app went live...
Meta launches Instagram Threads in a direct challenge to Twitter
KEY POINTS Threads is a text-based messaging app that looks very similar to Twitter. People will be able to use their Instagram usernames on Threads and follow the same accounts on Threads as they...
There’s No Such Thing as a Great Power – By Phillips P. O’Brien
How a Dated Concept Distorts Geopolitics In the lead-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most Western analysts saw Moscow as a great power and Kyiv as a lesser one. Diminished though it was from...
Will Russia’s Break With the West Be Permanent?
Putin Has Created a Rupture That Will Be Difficult to Repair – By Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman The war that is currently raging between Russia and Ukraine began in 2014. It started with a...
Prigozhin’s Rebellion, Putin’s Fate, and Russia’s Future
A Conversation With Stephen Kotkin Stephen Kotkin is a preeminent historian of Russia and the author of an acclaimed three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin (the third volume is forthcoming). Executive Editor Justin Vogt spoke with him...
The Beginning of the End for Putin?
Prigozhin’s Rebellion Ended Quickly, but It Spells Trouble for the Kremlin – By Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage Russia’s war against Ukraine has destroyed the mystique of Russian President Vladimir Putin as an untouchable...
83-year-old Al Pacino expecting child with 29-year-old girlfriend
Al Pacino, the ace American actor, is expecting a child with Noor Alfallah, his girlfriend. According to BBC, the 83-year-old actor is set to have the child with his 29-year-old girlfriend, who is eight...
Putin and the Psychology of Nuclear Brinksmanship
The War in Ukraine Hinges on One Man’s Thoughts and Feelings – By Rose McDermott, Reid Pauly, and Paul Slovic Shortly after the West rebuked Russia for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine and imposed...
