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What Happened in Syria? How Did al-Assad Fall?

What Happened in Syria? How Did al-Assad Fall? What Happened in Syria? How Did al-Assad Fall?  The Syrian Conflict What Happened in Syria?The Syrian conflict began in March 2011. Pro-democracy protests erupted across Syria, inspired by the wider Arab Spring…

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2024

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2024: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2024 ( the Sveriges Riksbank) …

Do U.S. Elections Spark New Conflicts? Elections Conflicts 2026

Two years after the original 2024 examination of this question, the pattern has not merely persisted, it has intensified in real time. With U.S. midterm elections now just eight months away (November 3, 2026), the classic drivers identified in the 2024 piece, election-year posturing, adversary opportunism, media amplification, and the enduring U.S.-Israel dynamic, are playing out against a backdrop of domestic economic strain and a major new military escalation.