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Morning Update: A post-Tory Britain
The Globe and Mail· 4 days agoEvery conceivable poll and pundit expects Keir Starmer will become Britain’s next prime minister today – more on that below, along with Canada’s...
This July Fourth, Remember the ‘Founding Scoundrels’
The Bulwark· 4 days agoAS AMERICANS CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE DAY, we tend to want to remember the ideal promised by the new nation: that the United States would be a place...
Opinion | Jewish Leaders Have Clashed over Zionism for Decades
Mississippi Free Press· 7 days agoSince October 2023, American Jews have been engaged in an intense, fractious debate over Israel’s...
The dizzying array of legal threats to Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro
Toronto Star· 3 days agoBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been a target for investigations since his early days...
China rejects key Western calls for human-rights reforms at U.N. meeting
AOL· 4 days agoChina on Thursday rejected Western-led recommendations for human-rights reforms including calls for greater freedoms in Hong Kong and for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but accepted others from allies ...
As Iran faces a rare runoff presidential election, disenchanted voters are staying away
Toronto Star· 6 days agoOver 20 years ago, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stood before a crowd at Friday...
Azerbaijan Escalates Conflict With France in Pacific Over Armenia Arms Supply
Financial Post· 6 days agoThe Baku Initiative Group, an organization linked to the Azerbaijani government, is agitating for an...
Taiwan Seeks to Escape Its History
The National Interest· 3 days agoIn his inauguration speech last May, Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, evoked the year 1624—when the Dutch East India Company established a fort on...
The Latest | Hamas says ‘positive response’ from mediators to its cease-fire amendments
Toronto Star· 3 days agoHamas says amendments it proposed to the most recent U.S. plan for a cease-fire in Gaza “have been...
George Hocker broke through barriers as one of the CIA’s first Black spymasters
AOL· 4 days agoWhen George Hocker underwent a grueling training course to become a CIA spy, much of America was still segregated. Different exercises had to be developed for Hocker. Out of a class of 75, Hocker was the only Black person.
