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28/11/2015 - 14:54

A PROXY WAR AND THE WIDER STRUGGLE In Syria, Putin professes that he wants to fight ISIS, but this is mere posturing. Even with new... →

22/11/2015 - 13:49

There is no other language, for example, that is close enough to English that we can get about half of what people are saying without... →

17/11/2015 - 19:43

What does IS want? In June 2014, the group formally declared the establishment of a "caliphate" - a state governed in accordance with... →

09/11/2015 - 14:49

In “The Invention of the Jewish People” (published in English in 2010), Sand informed us that aside from himself, no one – or at least no... →

04/11/2015 - 14:27

This didn’t happen. In fact, the country is now regressing to the level it was at in the late 1990s—and it risks remaining there for... →

30/10/2015 - 14:54

These are not fantasies dreamed up by some Hollywood studio. They're ripped from the pages of sober scientific journals and official... →

26/10/2015 - 12:10

So far, Tunisia has been a rare exception in the region. In Egypt, exclusionist policies by both Islamist forces and so-called liberal... →

19/10/2015 - 19:07

The idea of people on, or from, the moon is not unique to Western culture. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is a Japanese story dating back to... →

15/10/2015 - 14:53

That may sound alarming, but it has long been known that our bodies are really a mishmash of many different organisms. Microbes in your gut... →

11/10/2015 - 12:43

In these times of paralysis in Washington, with yet another government shutdown that had been looming merely kicked down the road, it is... →

06/10/2015 - 13:50

Commensurate with their power to change biology as we know it, the new technologies are driving renewed ethical debates. Uneasiness is... →

01/10/2015 - 16:06

Meanwhile the internet, much like the written word, struggles to reflect the linguistic diversity of the spoken word. According to the UN,... →

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