World cup semifinals: Why has no African team ever qualified?
African players are currently shaking up Europe’s domestic football scene like never before, with many among the world’s elite. So why are their...
Economic Sanctions Russia’s airline sector faces a slow death
Flight services for Russian passengers operate seemingly uninterrupted, at least on domestic routes. How can that be? “It’s a combination ofthings,”...
Where’s the anti-royal protest movement now?
Human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa helped inspire the movement back in 2020 after he broke long-standing taboos and openly demanded reforms of the...
COP-27 addresses issue of food waste
Yet just 36 countries have committed to some form of food loss or waste reduction in their national climate targets — or Nationally Determined...
Italy-EU migration spat a case of deja vu
We are witnessing the same appalling injustice as in 2018, when the country’s former Interior Minister and today’s Transport Minister Matteo Salvini...
Sharpening the sword of sanctions
In the United States in particular, the use of sanctions has become increasingly popular as a high-impact, non-kinetic approach to intervention, with...
Retreat from Kherson no reason to rejoice
Cautious initial reactions from Kyiv show that this news is hard for Ukrainians to believe, even when they’ve been working toward it for so long. Ever...
West Bank concerns: Palestinians worried about Bibi’s comeback
Meanwhile, the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu, who won the majority in last week’s Israeli elections, will include the far-right alliance,...
