Is the American system of constitutional democracy breaking down? And if so, why? Some analysts call attention to the contempt the Trump administration, President Donald Trump himself and his ...

After a landmark visit to France, Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his state visit to the US on the invitation of US President Donald Trump. PM Modi is the fourth world leader to meet President ...

In April 2025, US President Donald Trump’s tariff shock on Chinese imports triggered a sharp selloff in US Treasuries, exposing fragilities in the former safest asset in global finance. Market ...

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 ...

In my previous column bearing the title, “AI Tries, Fails and Unwittingly Succeeds at Poetry,” I engaged ChatGPT in a discussion of AI’s capacity to produce poetry. I suggested that an LLM was capable ...

I like to help my fellow Westerners understand China by comparing it to our own history. The Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, leading to the Middle Ages — a time of political fragmentation, ...

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them. And some others encircle the world, dominate the chessboard, scandalize a nation or just plain terrify ...

Turkey’s economy is in crisis. The country is facing one of the worst economic downturns in its modern history. Inflation has skyrocketed, the Turkish lira has lost significant value, and the cost of ...

The history of human civilization is a story of movement, adaptation and exchange. From our ancestors’ first migrations out of Africa to today’s interconnected global economy, progress has always been ...

Most people in the West and nearly all the mainstream media share their preferred narrative of the Ukraine war. It’s a conflict between Russia, an aggressor existentially committed to aggression and ...

In 1788, a year before the United States Constitution became the law of the land, James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers that the powers delegated to the federal government by the proposed ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons” and produces discourse that not only appears to be what a human could produce but coherently aligns facts, logic and ...