The Barbie movie has just been released at the box office, and the news and discussion around it has been substantial. People are discussing the plot, the choice of costume designs, the subtext...

Since America’s disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the rise of China, many consider the unipolar moment to be coming to an end. Many consider US global power to be in decline and cite this as key evidence for the ending of the unipolar world. Whether the US is in decline and the unipolar moment is coming to an end has major implications for the world.

From the outset, since the demise of the Soviet Union and the dismantling of the Warsaw Pact, NATO became a meandering, rudderless entity - but only for a while. The US agonized with what to do with it after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the de facto end of the Cold War.

Aljazeera reported that “‘Israel’s’ parliament on Monday ratified the first bill of a judicial overhaul sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after last-gasp compromise efforts collapsed and failed to ease a constitutional crisis convulsing the country for months. The amendment limiting the Supreme Court's powers to void some government decisions if it deemed them "unreasonable" passed by a 64-to-0 vote after opposition lawmakers abandoned the session in protest, some of them shouting:…