Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

In today’s complex financial environment, governments need to juggle any number of security threats while keeping the global markets functioning smoothly. From AI attacks to widespread civil war, ...

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Thousands of people from across 68 political parties have thrown their hats in the electoral ring for the March 5 elections. Former mayor of Kathmandu, Balendra Shah, of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

Ray Takeyh is Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Iran is once more experiencing a popular uprising. Scenes of protesters chanting “death to the ...

Iran’s clerics face a familiar uprising driven by economic collapse, but repression, not reform, now defines the regime’s response. Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

This week, as Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shuttered and demonstrations spread to dozens of cities, even state-aligned media began to acknowledge what the regime has spent decades denying: there is an ...