The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the ten richest people in the world — including nine Americans — expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in ...

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 “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 ...

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 ...

If the current tariffs drama surrounding US President Donald Trump looks nonsensical to you, congratulations — you’re still sane. But sanity alone won’t help make sense of this new wave of American ...

In the wake of a broader insurgency movement, the militant group Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has intensified its attacks against Pakistan’s government and security forces. On March 11, BLA ...

I was in Spain for the month of February while President Donald Trump and his merry band of corrupt oligarchs and sycophants brought a cruel chaos to the United States. While in Spain, it was easy ...

Like much else in the Middle East, Gaza’s fault lines are less linear than meets the eye. At first glance, it’s Israel, backed by the United States, against the rest of the world. March 18’s United ...

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 ...

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 ...