When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to become the Switzerland of Central Asia that the Swiss ambassador once joked ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

Years of sanctions have substantially weakened the Iranian economy, as evidenced by Iran’s keenness to have them cancelled, ...

Coda’s ZEG storytelling festival in Tbilisi has come to an end, and I am both overloaded with information and exhausted by ...

In 2017, the London Review of Books published a commentary from an anonymous young woman with a prolonged illness that had seriously impaired her ability to care for herself. The situation was ...

In most of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge fell in 1979 when Vietnamese troops toppled the regime. The Vietnamese occupied most of the country throughout the 1980s, hailed by some as liberators and others ...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe with Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the Sir John Monash Centre on opening day. Photo by Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images. The Prince of Wales at the ...

Frantz Fanon at a writers’ conference in Tunis. 1959. Wikimedia Commons. Yet Fanon himself had a fervent belief in new departures. In his writing, as well as in his work as a doctor and a ...

Inside Smart Aqkol’s “situation room.” Photos courtesy of the author. Kirpichnikov explained that residents can connect their gas meters to their bank accounts and set up automatic gas payments. This ...

Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway to investigate a sordid accusation: Someone had called the police department and ...