Zucchini caviar. Potato pancakes with porcini mushrooms. Buckwheat honey cake with raspberries. Sourdough baked from flour grown on a field that, not long ago, was laced with landmines. These dishes look...

“Now go, attack Amalek” (a town rivalling the Israelites) “and proscribe all that belongs to him. Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses!”  1...

On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury — coordinated strikes across Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, destroyed nuclear and missile sites, and opened the...

On Feb. 24, 2022, Mediazona, an independent Russian news outlet, began compiling a list. Every Russian soldier whose death could be verified by name — through obituaries, social media posts, cemetery...

For decades, American presidents have promised to broker peace in the Middle East, as if neutrality was a fixed resource the United States could never run out of. But today, that image is cracking. From...

On Jan. 14, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff announced the launch of Phase Two of President Trump’s 20-Point Plan for Gaza, a transition he described as moving “from ceasefire to demilitarization,...

This past summer, I had the pleasure of spending five weeks with the Makarere University – Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration (MUJHU) in Kampala, Uganda. I interviewed physicians, healthcare...

In the dead of night on January 3rd, President Donald Trump ordered the United States Armed Forces to conduct air strikes on several sites in Venezuela and abduct President Nicolás Maduro and his...

The streets of Tehran are burning. Shouts of Iran’s last shah, Reza Pahlavi, are fueling the fire. A 47-year old Islamic regime may be crumbling down—a glorious moment for Great Britain, the...

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in the early hours of January 19, 2025, bringing a pause to the latest conflict in the Middle East. A fragile calm rests as the guns no longer fire, the...

On Thursday, November 14, 2024, Professor J Andrés Gannon appeared on the Vanderbilt Political Review Podcast to discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the implications of a Trump presidency...

"There is no such thing as a pure, unambiguous history. In every struggle, there are competing narratives, and no one side holds all the truth." - Jon Meacham, American historian. The Israel-Hamas war...