– In George Friedman’s book “The Storm Before the Calm”, he outlines America’s socioeconomic and institutional cycles and explains how presidents fit into these cycles. The U.S. has elected Donald ...

The modern history of Qatar began in the 18th century with the settlement of Arab tribes along the Persian Gulf coast. It soon became a battleground, as the Saudis invaded in 1793 and decades later ...

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Light at the end. Lebanon and Hezbollah reached a common position on a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal with Israel and submitted their feedback to the U.S. ambassador in Beirut, an aide to the ...

Attack-‘ems. After months of deliberation, the U.S. reportedly has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied ballistic missiles with a range of 300 kilometers (186 miles) ...

As I wrote in my most recent book, “The Storm Before the Calm,” we tend to use presidencies as benchmarks to help us locate ...

As I wrote in my most recent book, “The Storm Before the Calm,” we tend to use presidencies as benchmarks to help us locate where we are in time, but it would be a mistake to think that presidents and ...

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