One of the first public comments that U.S. President Donald Trump made after he took office on Jan. 20 was during the World Economic Forum, when he publicly rebuked the CEOs of top banks in the United ...

“Till between the waters and the wind, came the marked-down derelicts with the dollar signs for eyes,” Nelson Algren wrote in his 1951 prose poem “Chicago: City on the Make.” “Looking for any prairie ...

A Mandarin-language ad targeting a Republican senator is under fire for being racist and xenophobic. The ad raises questions ...

Mason L. Wong is an editorial fellow at New Lines Magazine. He comes to us via the Public Humanities Doctoral Fellowship at ...

The court-ordered closure of Mada Masr, after years of legal and security harassment, and the continued detention of six ...

Opposition leaders have said they won’t ally with an Arab party, though polls show this is their only sure path to victory ...

Farmers’ livelihoods were taken away to build military bases and housing for regime supporters. The new government now seeks to redevelop these areas without redress ...

When the Assad regime expropriated land outside Damascus from local farmers, it became part of a chemical weapons facility.

On Oct. 11, the first day of Navratri, a nine-day festival among the most important in the Hindu calendar, 19-year-old Alexandros Paporakis drove into the parking lot of the Sri Venkateswara Swami ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev / Dec 19, 2017 / Yuri Kochetkov / AFP via Getty Images “Their concrete goal is to destroy the Russian ...

Chinese belly dancer students (front) look at an Egyptian teacher performing at a belly dancing school in Cairo / Patrick Biz / AFP via Getty Images When Lurdiana Tejas began watching belly dancing on ...