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Jan 25, 2025 | 
globelynews.com | Timothy J. Brown
Philadelphia Eagles and other local sports fans' "gritty" identity combines working-class ideology with mythmaking, passion, and defiance.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
globelynews.com
New York and London top a newly released ranking of the world's best cities — propelled by their economic and cultural dynamism, and livability.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
globelynews.com | Rachel Meade
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s shift from the Democratic Party to the Trump world reflects a populism fueled by male-dominated media, like Joe Rogan's podcast.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
globelynews.com | Arif Rafiq
Former President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with the Saudi government-owned news channel Al Arabiya English, which will air on Sunday. In recent weeks, Trump has backed out of interviews with 60 Minutes and other U.S. news programs. Politico reports that a Trump advisor attributed those cancellations to the 78-year-old being “exhausted.”The interview is also conspicuous for other reasons.
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May 23, 2024 | 
globelynews.com | Arif Rafiq
The border dispute between neighboring oil producers Guyana and Venezuela could simmer this summer ahead of the July 28 Venezuelan presidential elections. Venezuela, according to an analysis of satellite imagery by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), has engaged in a military buildup along the disputed border since early February — including the expansion of a base on the Anacoco Island.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
globelynews.com | Arif Rafiq
“The Horn of Africa has always been a geopolitical hot zone,” says University of Maryland Professor Michael Woldemariam in the latest episode of our flagship global affairs podcast, The Pivot. The recent maritime access agreement between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland is a testament to the region’s volatility. Listen to this episode of The Pivot on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Audacy, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Pandora, Pocket Casts, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, or YouTube Music.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
globelynews.com | Arif Rafiq
Nikki Haley remains in the Republican presidential race despite low odds of winning the nomination, befuddling many observers. The former South Carolina governor’s interview on Thursday on NPR may shed light on her aims. In the interview, Haley tailored her message not to likely South Carolina Republican primary voters, but to NPR’s audience, 65 percent of which identifies as Democrat, independent, or unaffiliated.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
globelynews.com | Arif Rafiq
Earlier today, just hours after the death of imprisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was reported, President Joe Biden address the nation and spoke the plain truth. “Putin,” he said, “is responsible for Navalny’s death.”The swiftness and clarity with which the Biden administration responded to the Navalny death contrast with its garbled, slow response to another assassination attempt: the, thankfully, failed one on former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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Jan 27, 2024 | 
globelynews.com | Arif Rafiq
The race to succeed the disgraced George Santos for the NY-3 congressional seat took a sharp turn toward the bizarre and the ugly this week with virtually every local media outlet claiming that the Republican candidate, Mazi Melesa Pilip, is avoiding them with the election just weeks away. On the defensive, Pilip — a county legislator and veteran of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) — is now accusing her opponent, the former Rep. Tom Suozzi, of being supported by anti-Semites.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
globelynews.com | Arif Rafiq
Iran and Pakistan exchanged cross-border strikes last week across their shared frontier in what turned out to be a short-lived crisis, as the two regional powers quickly moved toward de-escalation. On Tuesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck locations inside Pakistan’s Balochistan province it claimed were associated with Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni militant group from Iran’s ethnic Baloch minority that’s been responsible for attacks in Iran for over a decade.