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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our friend and collaborator Gary Grappo’s insightful and disturbing account of the geopolitical reality of a region he knows very well turns out to be informative in ways that he may not have intended ...

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. With ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio — Pope Francis — went home to face his Lord on the morning of Easter Monday, after 12 years on St. Peter’s throne, at the age of 88. From the start of his pontificate, Francis ...

China is building the world’s biggest dam on the Brahmaputra River to boost its power and sway in South Asia. The move has set off alarms in India and Bangladesh over water, security and sovereignty.

Early in the 20th century, The New York Times earned the sobriquet “The Gray Lady.” Though the style of the paper has evolved, the image encourages readers to trust its editors’ and reporters’ ...

Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing populist political party Reform UK, has capitalized on Britain’s growing discontent with its traditional political class as the country faces one of its most ...

The latest and most exciting development in artificial intelligence is the set of technologies broadly dubbed as generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”). At the core of GenAI are large language ...