Elections in Poland.

In June 1991, when Manmohan Singh heard that he was about to be appointed finance minister of India, he thought it must be a joke. It was inconceivable that a sixty-year-old technocrat with no prior ...

The first centre of Shenzhen was Luohu, a cluster of towers and bootleg retail outlets crammed hard up against the Hong ...

The only serious challenge to US hegemony since the state’s inception was the left-wing government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ...

The US political world can today be divided not only between left and right, but along another axis: Trump maximalists and Trump minimalists. Maximalists are inclined to view Trump as an agent or ...

How to relate to the Leninist tradition? How to extract its truth? The basis of Lenin’s success was the perfect adaptation of his political strategy to the historical terrain of late Tsarist Russia, ...

With negotiations for a peace agreement in Ukraine now underway, and Washington signalling a possible détente with the Kremlin, European states are doing everything they can to obstruct the process.

It is hard to define his mood exactly, but Karl Marx was certainly elated around the time of his twenty-sixth birthday in May 1844. He was living in Paris, newly married; his daughter, Jenny, was just ...

The first film David Lynch ever saw, when he was six years old, was a 1952 melodrama by the director Henry King called Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie. Shot in bright orange candlelight and deep ...

The latest tech company to reach the upper echelons of cybernetic capitalism is Nvidia, which fabricates Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), a component of computing-machinery that has become dominant ...

None but a few corrupt cronies will be shedding tears at the tyrant’s departure. But there should be no doubt that what we are witnessing in Syria today is a huge defeat, a mini 1967 for the Arab ...