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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a striking political development over the past two months, the Iraqi government has initiated steps to formally integrate the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) into the national army structure.

Although we’re now scattered across the globe, my sister and I grew up in Calgary. So recently, when we were both in town, on a cloudless blue-sky Alberta day, we drove the hour along Highway 22 (also ...

In 1961, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a letter to all state chief ministers and criticized caste-based reservation. He said, “This way lies not only folly but disaster.” He ...

US President Donald Trump has signed as many as 26 executive orders on the first day of his second term. This new record has resulted in unrest among the Indians who are questioning the achievements ...

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 ...

On March 1, the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) announced a ceasefire and laid down arms against the Turkish government. Given the long history of broken ceasefires and failed peace talks, this ...