More than rice and beans or bread and butter, no combination has been as popular in Brazil this year as celebrities, ostentation, unrepentant behavior and questionable sectors where money circulates.

Yemen remains on the margins for the international community even as millions suffer from a deepening economic crisis and lack of humanitarian aid. It has been ten years since the Houthis, an ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT not only to better understand how AI “reasons” but also to see what it can tell me about the way I reason. It means engaging in a conversation where we are ...

Cyprus has long been called Nisi Afroditi (“Aphrodite’s Island”), as the Greeks believed Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was born here. Despite this friendly moniker and the country’s rich culture, ...

Two years after the US successfully targeted the Al-Qaeda chief in Afghanistan, Israel allegedly conducted a covert operation in Iran, assassinating Ismail Haniyeh, a key Hamas leader. The operation ...

In the heart of the Middle East, where golden sands dance in the embrace of the desert winds, a remarkable metamorphosis is unfolding in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This transformation, akin to the ...

Western-style democracies accept the dogma that governments are best or most justly run when each citizen has an equal say in deciding who should govern — the “one person, one vote” principle. For ...

Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine you have a group of five hundred men, and they want to decide how to run their society. They vote on whether to enact Proposition A or Proposition B to solve ...

Escalating political tension between the United States and China is throttling the exchange of scientific research and making it harder for the US to attract and retain talented Chinese scholars, ...

In his Mandala Theory of foreign policy, the renowned ancient Indian philosopher Kautilya establishes that “the immediate neighbor state is most likely to be an enemy.” This thesis holds equal ...

In 2006, Facebook launched its News Feed feature, sparking seemingly endless contentious public discourse on the power of the “social media algorithm” in shaping what people see online. Nearly two ...

Israel has invaded Lebanon with the stated goal of preventing Hezbollah from menacing its northern territories. Israel’s unwillingness to negotiate, however, suggests that its true goal is to destroy ...