This week in Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party-controlled National People’s Congress, a rubber-stamp legislature, set out President Xi Jinping’s policy goals for 2024. Premier Li Qiang...
Saddam Hussein’s 24-year rule over Iraq comprised an almost singular reign of megalomania, mass slaughter, gangsterism, kleptocracy, and national self-destruction. Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi...
Lauren Oyler’s No Judgment is the kind of book that comes with certain quality assurances that read like wine-tasting notes. The essays contained therein...