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This article examines how Oman’s sectarian plurality among its citizen population, dating back to the founding of the Sultanate in 1970 under Sultan Qaboos after a British-backed coup, remains stable. We’ll also use Yemen, since its founding as the Republic of Yemen in 1990, as a counterexample to Oman to illustrate how politicized identity structures can lead to disaster. We’ll then examine how thesee two case studies can inform the reform of a post-Assad Syria toward long-term stability.

If we want to reduce violence against all children today and interpersonal, gender-based violence in the future, we must work directly with boys, the group most often turning to violence as a tool of communication.

From tax enforcement and welfare allocation to immigration assessments and predictive policing, algorithms are increasingly embedded in the decisions that affect people’s rights, access, and daily lives.

Power built through partnership, not dominance, is what will secure long-term leadership in the region. 

A single disruption to space services can destabilize power grids, distort stock-market timing, hinder emergency responders when seconds matter, and knock cell-tower networks out of sync.

With this limited window for change, the governor of Wisconsin must advance efforts to bolster reproductive health and combat CPCs by January 2027, before his current term concludes.

Our anxieties about the future should not cloud evidence today.

The resumption of direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in May after a three-year hiatus was never about peace.

Policymakers are accustomed to thinking in finite measurable terms like laws, budgets, and program implementation. Artificial intelligence, however, no longer advances in a straight line or within the familiar boundaries of public administration.

The far-reaching corruption scandal engulfing Greece’s agricultural subsidy system (OPEKEPE) has once again exposed deep institutional failures, but it also opens a crucial question: what can recent digital reforms tell us about the possibility of democratic renewal?

If nothing is done to address layoffs amongst older workers, the US could be facing a future of increased poverty among adults as they are about to enter retirement age.

With over 60 million people of childbearing potential in the United States and nearly four million births annually, the continued exclusion of pregnant individuals from clinical drug trials is a critical public health issue.