Rock music was designed to disrupt, offend and confront society, from Elvis’s racial subversion to Dylan’s protest lyrics, Motown’s coded defiance, and hip-hop’s open confrontation. Recent ...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appears determined to depopulate Gaza by hook or by crook, even if he has bowed to US pressure by agreeing to a reduced military presence in the Strip as part ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate different AI chatbots to better understand how they “reason.” Of course, we can easily recognize that AI reasons on its own only in the sense that it emulates the ...

On June 13, Israel carried out a massive strike against Iran, claiming that the country was close to creating nuclear weaponry. This attack came on the heels of a report from the International Atomic ...

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. Last ...

Ten years after Germany accepted nearly 900,000 refugees, politicians have rewritten the story of the 2015 “refugee summer” as a crisis instead of a humanitarian effort. Far-right narratives, led by ...

Western democracy has devolved into a system of elite-managed spectacle, where real political choice and public agency have all but disappeared.

On July 4, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which extends the 2017 tax cuts and overhauls Opportunity Zones.

The recent International Monetary Fund Article IV consultation and Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) for the euro area (EA) have cast into sharp relief the region’s pressing vulnerabilities ...

US President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has passed the US Senate. This horrid bill aims to slash $1.7 trillion from public services and add billions to military spending, much of which will ...

French Emperor Napoleon III launched a military campaign in Mexico in 1861 to extend French influence and construct a Pan-Latin alliance that could counter Anglo-American power. France installed ...

Unfortunately, more often than not, the environmental consequences of a healthy diet are disastrous, particularly in the case of avocados.