On the second day of the 2023 NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Britain’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, and U.S. national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, reportedly made statements that raised some concerns about the continuity of NATO support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. According to press reports, Wallace and
On June 19, 2023, U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard teams, together with other supporting parties, launched a massive operation to rescue the five people on board the Titan, a submersible that was on its way to the site of the Titanic shipwreck. Five days later, news emerged that the vessel
In international politics, national sovereignty is a sacred principle that must be steadfastly safeguarded. But in deferring to this tenet, one must ask what makes a particular nation sovereign. In whom does supreme authority reside within that nation’s borders? Is it the people, or some other entity? If that authority
On March 2, 2022, just days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, members of the United Nations voted to adopt United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/1, which condemned the invasion and, among other things, called for a full withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. 141 countries voted in favor of the resolution,
The Boy from Boadua” tells the struggle of Patrick Asare as a child growing up in Africa in the remote Ghanaian village of Boadua, where no one in his generation was educated beyond the middle school level. The book traces Asare’s remarkable journey, overcoming astronomical obstacles and succeeding beyond anyone’s,