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In history, as in romance, beginnings matter – so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the future
In these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in , as Robin Niblett, the former director of the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, proposes in a new book? Is this bringing us towards the brink of a third world war, as the historian Niall Ferguson ? Or, as I have found myself suggesting on occasion, is the world beginning to resemble the late 19th-century Europe of competing empires and great powers writ large?
Another way of trying to put our travails into historically comprehensible shape is to label them as an “age of …”, with the words that follow suggesting either a parallel with or a sharp contrast to an earlier age. So the CNN foreign affairs guru Fareed Zakaria suggests in his latest book that we are in a new , meaning that we can learn something from the French, Industrial and American revolutions. Or is it rather , as proposed by the Financial Times foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman? No, it’s , says Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, since “connectivity causes conflict”.

A new study by The Asian American Foundation called out America's attitude towards Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.

DALLAS (KDAF) — A new study by the Asian American Foundation called out America’s attitudes towards Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. The study highlighted issues that are still ...

Growing up as first-generation Asian-American in this country, shame was my inherent state of being. It was the only context in which I could understand my Korean identity; yet I now realize, it was ...

Threats from the state have led many journalists across the world to flee their home countries to report from elsewhere. But for many the intimidation did not stop when they left
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Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

As a kid, the only Asian American literature that crossed my path was stylized and historical, writes. Now I’m thrilled to find so many books that go beyond the usual tropes.

A new study by The Asian American Foundation called out America's attitude towards Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.

US president says ‘immigrants are what makes us strong’ and criticizes countries, plus China and Russia, over migration policy
Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain their economic circumstances and contrasted the four with the US on immigration.
The remarks, at a campaign fundraising event on Wednesday evening, came just three weeks after , the Japanese prime minister, for a , during which the two leaders celebrated what Biden called an “unbreakable alliance”, particularly on global security matters.

And my daughter, she will always know that her father was a police officer. And they will have a greater respect for the community.” ...

In a new book, a prominent researcher delves into opposing views of racism, equity, and fairness in education.

A new study by the Asian American Foundation called out America’s attitudes towards Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. The study highlighted issues that are still being faced ...

It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments should be recognized annually across the nation ...