Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

Not only a tool to justify U.S. and Israeli intervention, the label is increasingly dividing Iranian society from within.

Alex Shams is a writer and anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, and elsewhere. A political and literary forum, ...

Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...