Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University The U.S. has dispatched eight Army and Navy vessels from Virginia to build a temporary pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The aim of this work: to supply…
Michael Brenner, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University and Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University Just when you think nothing can surprise you anymore in Israeli politics, someone always comes along with a new twist.…
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Ahmet T. Kuru, Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University I…
Alessandro Poletto, Lecturer in East Asian Religions, Arts & Sciences at Washington…
Uma S Kambhampati, University of Reading The second wave of the pandemic has struck India with a devastating impact. With over 300,000 new cases and 3,000 deaths across the country each day…
Shelley Inglis, University of Dayton Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most important opposition leader, is emaciated, hospitalized and reportedly nearing death after developing a fever and cough in the remote penal colony where he…
The U.S State Department updated its travel guidance “to better reflect CDC’s science-based Travel Health Notices.” Using a four-tier method of notices, the list labels roughly 80% of the countries worldwide as…
Erika Frydenlund, Old Dominion University; Jose J. Padilla, Old Dominion University, and Katherine Palacio, Universidad del Norte Colombia will grant legal status to all Venezuelan migrants who fled there since 2016 to…
Aamer Mahmud, Coventry University The ceremonial funeral of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, will take place on Saturday April 17 in the chapel at Windsor Castle. But in a break from…
Dalindyebo Shabalala, University of Dayton The world has a COVID-19 vaccine access problem: Almost half of all doses administered so far have been in Europe and North America, while many poorer countries…
Tharaphi Than, Northern Illinois University With great fanfare – but few guests – Myanmar’s armed forces recently celebrated their 76th anniversary in the nation’s capital of Naypyitaw. Only Russia, China, Thailand and…
Sean Lang, Anglia Ruskin University The death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh marks the end of a chapter not just for the British royal family – but for European monarchy…
The French Tennis Federation (FFT) announced on Thursday that the 2021 French Open tennis tournament has been postponed by a week due to the pandemic. The second grand slam of the year…
After contemplating about hanging on another year to compete at the delayed Tokyo Olympics, Simon Biles, a four-time gold medalist gymnast, hints that she just might stick around for the 2024 Paris…
