The world faces unresolved conflicts, growing climate crises, attacks on aid workers, two famines, and diminishing political will—along with significant aid cuts. Altogether, 2025 has earned a grim ...

As the world faces escalating geopolitical and economic crises, Qatar has demonstrated that real influence is built on trust and collaboration, not force or coercion. The Israeli aggression against ...

Affordability, long a kitchen-table concern for many American families, has escalated into a national crisis, following years of persistently high inflation and a widening wealth gap. But, while ...

In an era of growing polarisation, rising inequality, and resurgent populism, a new report argues that teaching economic crises in history classrooms is more than a lesson about recessions — it is a ...

Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling, India and Pakistan’s border skirmishes, and fears of Chinese nuclear coercion in a Taiwan contingency are all individual data points characterizing a larger trend of ...

The largest-ever class of high school seniors is about to graduate, just as colleges are facing major upheaval. Here’s what they could face as they head to campus. By Alan Blinder Ron Lieber Stephanie ...

Alarm bells are tolling for students of all ages and literacy levels, from trends in COVID-19 recovery, to fundamental reading pedagogy, to reading in higher education, to the features of cognition ...

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% chance of survival, according to a report. “Asma is dying,” one source ...

Even by the standards of recent years, 2024 was a year of turmoil in which new conflicts erupted, existing crises seethed, and climate-fueled disasters multiplied. As a result, the number of people ...

Asma al-Assad, Syria’s now-ousted first lady, was known as the “Imelda Marcos of Syria” and is “much more cutthroat” than her notorious dictator husband — once demanding full editorial control over a ...

Former Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad is 'no longer welcome' in her UK homeland, the government has said — LOUAI BESHARA Once celebrated as an advocate of women's rights in the Middle East, Syria's ...