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His shortsighted analysis of the war in Iran was followed by a blatant lie.

Hungary’s incoming leader aims to tackle corruption, the previous administration’s influence, and dependence on Russia.

A dispatch from the Art Editor

The world’s worst humanitarian crisis threatens to engulf the wider region.

Targeting the inner circle of leadership shows no one is safe.

From Gaza to Lebanon to Iran, Netanyahu has sought to end threats rather than manage them.

Lebanon’s civil war did not end in 1990. It assumed new forms and it isn’t over yet. Like my colleagues, I returned. ..

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to be. ..

The careers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Maria Cosway required constant, delicate calibration to keep the. ..

Being underestimated​ was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. The Congress elders who helped her become India’s. ..

Pamela Harriman was drawn to power itself, rather than what power could achieve, and had no developed politics of her. ..

The interchangeable quality of the fictional elements in Ben Lerner’s novels signals an anxiety about his own artistic. ..

Kristóf’s books recognise human passions as dark things that can ensnare anyone. We have social norms, moral codes, ...

It isn’t controversial to expect courts to be politically neutral when deciding cases that have great political impact. ..

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture. ..

Seeing my serious Chinese-made firearm, Haruki Murakami once said to me: ‘You’re the only writer I know who has a. ..

The idea of a road trip organised around trials and hearings at court houses across the US had been in my head for years. ..

More has probably been written about The Ambassadors than about any other work by Holbein. Is the painting a commentary. ..

Schuyler once told an interviewer that he didn’t write the kind of poetry that attracted critics. ‘It’s too easy. ..

To an extent rivalled only by the Beatles, the Beach Boys have become the tales told about them, the ever expanding. ..