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The US Sanctions Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood

The US recently designated Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group amid ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces. Islamist factions, deeply entwined with General Abdel... Read full article

Fernando Carvajal - April 7, 2026

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Economics and Finance
Capitalism at 250: Freedom, Legitimacy and the Renewal of the Market Order
by John F. Halbleib & Masaaki Yoshimori
Central & South Asia
Why Northeast India Remains Neglected and How to Fix It
by Swapnarka Arnan
Middle East News
How Hybrid Warfare Shaped the Iran War Before It Began
by Deepak Kumar
India News
Why Must India Continue to Maintain Military Control of the Saltoro Ridge?
by Advaita Gaur

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Easter and Passover Explained: Two Stories, One Crossing

by Liam Roman, Casey Herrmann & Roberta Artemisia Campani

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

by Vikram K. Malkani, Atul Singh & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

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The Agenbite of Diplomacy: Are Negotiations Still a Thing?

Language sometimes betrays us. Politicians routinely betray language. Trump has perfected a trend he didn’t initiate: the discrediting of diplomacy...

The Fog of Foreknowledge Versus the Clarity of War

Two early-century warnings — Wesley Clark’s revelation of a Pentagon regime-change plan and William Burns’s memo...

Peter Thiel: The Antichrist Hunter of Silicon Valley

One journalist describes Peter Thiel as a fan of the Bible. Columnist Ross Douthat calls him...

Beware Hubris: Trump’s Iran War Has an Ozymandias Flavor

Never short of hyperinflated self-praise and self-adulation, US President Donald...

by Alan Waring

The Supreme Court of India Has No Spine

by Rishi A. Kumar

Iran Triggers Hormuz Chokepoint Crisis and Risk of Global Stagflation

by Atul Singh & Manu Sharma

The Agency of Middle Powers in a Fragmented and Polarized World

by Thomas Greminger

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China–Taiwan Tensions — Civil War Legacies and Geopolitical Chess

Since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has been acting more aggressively towards Taiwan. Tensions go back nearly a century ago, when communists and nationalists fought a bloody civil war. The latter lost and fled to Taiwan, running a one-party state for...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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