[Usama Malik wrote this article before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Although it does not reflect post-election events, Fair Observer believes the analysis remains insightful and relevant.] The ...

The journey into what statistician Erica Thompson calls “Model Land” began innocuously enough. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the emergence of statistical methods that promised to bring ...

On June 14, 2022, the Indian government changed over two centuries of tradition in military recruitment policy. According to the new policy, called Agnipath (“path of fire”), the military inducts new ...

Originalists and living constitutionalists currently debate how to interpret the constitution of the United States. Far from remaining in a purely juridical or scholarly context, this has become a ...

US President Donald Trump has suddenly sent the world into upheaval by increasing tariffs on all countries that export to the US. His main target has been China. This move will once again fuel China’s ...

India captures a large part of Pakistan’s territory (spatial threshold). India destroys a large part of Pakistan’s armed forces (military threshold). India strangles Pakistan economically (economic ...

Latin American politics have long fascinated and unsettled the world. From afar, the region looks like a vast political laboratory where everything is tried before it’s exported: revolutions, ...

The world of macroeconomic forecasting could probably always use a disruption that enhances accuracy. One such comes from experts at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and elsewhere, who ...

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. With ...

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early part of the 20th century, the Middle East has been marked by conflict, violence, political instability, foreign interference, the rise and consequent ...

Around the world, we have been witnessing a dangerous shift toward authoritarianism that is jeopardizing even established democracies like the US and the Netherlands. Civic spaces where free speech, ...

“Harvard is a threat to democracy,” declared US President Donald Trump in a Truth Social post. He accused the university of being an “Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institution” and a breeding ground for ...