Less than three years after the disruptions of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine subsided, the world economy confronts another sustained energy and supply chain shock. The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran, and Iran’s retaliatory strikes against US military assets and oil production infrastructure across the Persian Gulf, have

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. So begins Edwin Markham’s lionized poem “The Man with the Hoe.” At the tail end of the Gilded Age and the dawn of

In 2020, Democratic presidential nominee Senator Bernie Sanders was grilled by the media about his “repeated” history of praising Cuba’s education system. When the subject of Cuba came up at a Charleston, South Carolina, primary debate, Sanders was booed by some in the crowd. “Really? Really?” Sanders asked the audience. “Literacy programs are bad?” Today

I suppose if there’s a hell and I die and go there, Reminders of Him will be the only movie available, and it will play every day in mandatory screenings. Based on a novel by the mega-selling Colleen Hoover, it’s a tearjerker about a thirtyish woman named Kenna Rowan (Maika Monroe) just out of prison,

This month’s local elections in France may not turn out to be such a debacle after all. A far cry from the nationalist and conservative wave that many had feared, left-wing candidates are reasonably well positioned to hold on to power, not only in major urban centers like Paris and Lyon. The first-round vote on