Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s 2025 presidential election after voters turned against Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government for failing to deliver on key promises. Nawrocki enters office with ...

Global public debt has reached unprecedented levels and is projected to exceed 100% of global GDP by 2030, with rising interest rates and shrinking fiscal space compounding the risks. Yet the greater ...

However, since a mere dusting operation of the old playbook is unlikely to work in the current circumstances, the Taliban has signaled an interest in doing things differently this time. Its foreign ...

Netflix documentary "Anna Nicole: You Don’t Know Me" explores the captivating yet perilous life of Anna Nicole Smith.

Glenn Carle Glenn Carle is a retired CIA officer who was Deputy National Intelligence Officer leading the 17 agencies that compose the US Intelligence Community in preparing assessments on ...

This discussion covers the collapse of Iran’s Axis of Resistance, a network of militant proxies and allied states central to Tehran’s security doctrine. Fair Observer Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and ...

In 2020, COVID hit the global economy like a ton of bricks. Lockdowns induced a global slowdown and disrupted supply chains. Not only toilet paper but also semiconductors were in short supply. A 2021 ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons” and produces discourse that appears to be what a human could produce. When dealing with factual matters we encounter ...

In 1941, World War II was in full swing. Thanks to its oil reserves, Iran was a key piece on the geopolitical chessboard. Reza Shah Pahlavi was in-charge as an absolutist ruler. The British had backed ...

During the Dutch colonial era, indigenous gay scenes also existed alongside their Dutch counterparts. An important manuscript written in 1928 and published in 1992 as My Life: an Autobiography of a ...

The term “honey trap” was popularized by John le Carré in his 1974 novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. During the Cold War, intelligence agencies regularly deployed women to ensnare senior military ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) political success in the Hindi heartland of North India and its stagnation in the southern state of Telangana deepen the crisis of representation for southern states ...