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During his speech at the US-Saudi Investment Forum, Trump reengaged with Middle Eastern leaders and revived the Abraham Accords. His focus on trade-based incentives signals a broader shift toward ...
Global public debt has surged to record levels, and the outlook for the next decade is increasingly grim. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), global debt is projected to exceed 100% of ...
Some of us old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 have maintained a sense of how fragile our enjoyment of the post World War II consumer society might be. In relation to the chaos ...
The French Ministry of the Interior recently released a report accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of pushing its fundamentalist agenda in France and across Europe. This report, which made headlines at ...
The global fight against foreign influence has entered a precarious phase. In April, US President Donald Trump shut down the last State Department office specifically tasked with countering foreign ...
Netflix documentary "Anna Nicole: You Don’t Know Me" explores the captivating yet perilous life of Anna Nicole Smith.
Decolonization appears to have become the new buzzword, the new currency circulating within academic circles, with several universities in the UK and the USA increasingly talking about decolonizing ...
The guns have fallen silent along the Line of Control (LoC) between Pakistani- and Indian-administered Kashmir. A fragile ceasefire is in place, but this calm is unlikely to last. Pakistan has a long ...
In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. Do ...
In the wake of US President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, Indonesia’s digital public sphere has been swamped by the spread of viral pro-China disinformation. From tales of a prophet’s tomb ...
US President Donald Trump and his former inseparable sidekick and BFF, Elon Musk, have been putting on a show that resembles two small kids (with rich parents) vying for supremacy in a sandbox, in ...
Intrigued by an item in the news recounting Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions with AI, I decided to address the following prompt first to Perplexity, then to ChatGPT: “Reporting on the latest act of ...