By Carey Durkin Treado, Associate Teaching Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh When more than 1,300 people at the U.S. State Department lost their jobs in a mass firing this summer, most headlines focused on...

By Julie M. Norman, Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at RUSI; Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations, UCL In Gaza City, Palestinians are fleeing a renewed Israeli to take control over...

By Ran Porat, Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University As the longest-serving Israeli prime minister (17 years), Benjamin Netanyahu is famous for his political wizardry and survival skills. But he is...

By Jane Kershaw, Gad Rausing Associate Professor of Viking Age Archaeology, University of Oxford In the archaeology galleries of the Yorkshire Museum, an incredible Viking silver neck-ring takes centre stage. The ring is made of...

By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University A seismic political shift has taken place in Bolivia. The country’s leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party, which has dominated Bolivian politics for nearly 20 years,...