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Around the year 1400 a young woman in Central Europe was given a saddle made of bone, likely for her wedding day. As she rode from her parents’ home to

I had an ultimately harmless encounter with ICE at an airport TSA checkpoint. It was a preview of a new, more sophisticated way to terrorize people.

The White House remains committed to achieving all of its war objectives despite a lack of NATO support.

A slew of new doomsaying books miss what’s coming round the bend.

“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, ” like its predecessor series, offers a prescient glimpse into contemporary politics.

Is the Persian Gulf’s economic model in jeopardy?

Indigenous knowledge is helping conservationists manage delicate ecologies.

Festering battles on the international tennis circuit have finally burst into the open.

For my part, I knew that I had fallen in love with Dry Leaf when another cow—or was it a horse? —ambled through the frame enfolded in a pixelated outline distinct from the rest of the sky behind it. I understood that what I was looking at was the byproduct of a ringing artifact, a ghost at the meeting point of cow and sky.

Soon after the outbreak of war in Iran, as America was blitzing the country from a distance with a fusillade of bombs and missiles, Secretary of War Pete

Short of a full-scale invasion of Iran, it looks like Trump will need to deal with the Islamic Republic.

We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.

A symbolic DNC resolution could force Democrats to take a stand on the millions the increasingly toxic AIPAC spends on Democratic primaries.

What lesson about national solidarity will Erdogan draw from Israel and Iran?

The normalisation of war demands not the burial of international law, but its urgent reinvention — and Europe must lead the charge.

War setbacks, protests, and internet shutdowns expose the limits of Kremlin control.

Can this era of south-south cooperation outlast leftist leadership?

A state legislator was moved to sponsor the bill — now signed into law — following a Salt Lake Tribune-ProPublica investigation that showed how polygraphs can retraumatize sexual abuse victims.

The group’s increasing anti-war push shows how progressives are leveraging an unpopular war in the midterms.

President Sadyr Japarov has stifled opposition. Now he’s going after his former right-hand man.