Pakistan Is Losing Its Glaciers to Climate Change
With over 7,200 dotting its three mountain ranges — the Hindu Kush, the Karakoram and the Himalayas — Pakistan is home to the most glaciers outside the polar regions. Due to climate change, they are melting rapidly, creating unique challenges.
The University That Shaped Russia’s Intervention in Syria
For decades, an elite university in St. Petersburg sustained Russia’s expertise on the Middle East and its influence abroad. Yet cracks in Russia’s supposed mastery of the region started to show around the turn of the millennium.
MAGA Zionism and Its Discontents
A growing number of American Christians are eager to turn a prevailing Zionist theology and associated pro-Israel policies on their head. They might be dismissed as outliers for the moment. But the fringe has somehow repeatedly found its way to the center in American politics.
How Irish Americans Defied a Ban on Financing Weapons During the Troubles
During the 1970s and 1980s, when Northern Ireland was wracked by sectarian violence known as the Troubles, Irish Americans raised millions of dollars purportedly for the families of imprisoned IRA men. But evidence shows they were also circumventing the ban imposed by the U.S. government by funding weapons purchases.
Laboratories of Authoritarianism
Why does open authoritarianism feel like a relief to some people? If you are going to be told what to do and can’t offer feedback that someone actually listens to, maybe it is better not to even have the pretense of democracy. Open authoritarianism is, of course, what Trump offers.