In the loud theater of modern global politics, few words are as debated, weaponized and misunderstood as Hindutva. Around the world, critics frequently paint it as an aggressive, exclusionary nationalism. Domestically, it is often reduced to a heated political voting banner.
In democracies, citizens need to be informed. Luckily for all of us, we have our trusted news media who never fail to breathlessly report the dramatic facts surrounding the great issues of the day. And never has that reporting been more crucial to our sense of wellbeing.
Grasshopper, if a man dwells on the past, then he robs the present. But if a man ignores the past, he may rob the future. The seeds of our destiny are nurtured by the roots of our past.
After the war with Spain at the turn of the 19th century, the United States occupied Cuba militarily, ushering in an era of tight tutelage over the island’s governments, international relations and political and economic life more broadly.
A hunger strike carries no weapons, no budget and no army. Yet for more than a century, this simple refusal to eat has repeatedly forced governments, employers and prison authorities to bend.
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh speaks with Fernando Carvajal, the executive director at The American Center for South Yemen Studies, and former Aden Free Zone Chair Abdul Galil Shaif about Islamist extremism in Yemen and Sudan.
Indonesia’s energy transition has entered a new phase — one defined less by ambition than by absorption capacity. Indonesia is building power plants faster than it is modernizing the grids and interconnections needed to absorb their output.
On June 23, the Metropolitan Police (the Met) announced plans to introduce static live facial recognition cameras across London’s West End and Soho by the end of the year. The force said the system would build on its pilot in Croydon, South London, where cameras mounted on existing infrastructure he…
On June 30, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) released Donald Trump’s 2025 annual financial disclosure. This 927-page report traces how closely his personal business and his institutional role now overlap.
Fair Observer editor Lucy Golish speaks with Bobby J. Smith, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, about the long history of underinvestigated Black deaths in the United States.
[T]he next iteration of the global security, political and economic system will not be framed by the United States alone. The reality is already something else. It is not an “order,” which inherently points to a hierarchy, and perhaps not even a “disorder.” A range of countries are pushing and pulli…
This discussion with Claude initially focused on the vocabulary the Anthropic team was using to describe their efforts to ensure the ethical probity of an evolving LLM. Citing “rewards” and “reinforcement” tells us that the cultural context they have chosen to work within is Skinnerian behaviorism.
Fair Observer’s Communications and Outreach officer, Roberta Campani, speaks with Helder Ferreira do Vale, a professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Brasília, about Brazil’s closely contested 2026 presidential election.
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and FOI Senior Partner Glenn Carle, a retired CIA officer who now advises companies, governments and organizations on geopolitical risk, examine how the US–Israeli war against Iran could precipitate a global food crisis.
With most every serious topic that emerges for discussion in our media, “responsible” voices of authority in both government and the media will step up to guide us towards how good citizens are expected to react and think. No time for nuance or extended reflection.
When Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary this month, my first reaction was surprise. My second was dread. Surprise, because a Muslim American with an unmistakably Arab name and an unapologetically pro-Palestinian record had won a statewide primary in a swing state.
There has always been the promise that it won’t keep happening, that things will get better. There has always been the mantra that there is a diminishing racial chasm in America that will somehow generate a better economic and social order for Black and Brown people in the nation.
Never has a murder case been so dependent on subjective reaction. Whatever anyone says, the facts do not speak for themselves. Fact: On January 24, 2023, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children — Cora, aged five, Dawson, three and Callan, just eight months old.
Activist Sonam Wangchuk gained nationwide attention by joining an indefinite hunger strike at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar in solidarity with the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a youth-led movement demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over India’s exam scandals — and pushing for refo…
Nepal’s catastrophic flood of August 26, 2026, is first and foremost a human tragedy. By September 2, over 1,100 people had been confirmed dead and thousands missing. The flood, triggered by a massive collapse of rock and ice near Langtang Lirung mountain peak, also destroyed roads, bridges and hydr…
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and FOI Senior Partner Glenn Carle, a retired CIA officer who now advises companies, governments and organizations on geopolitical risk, examine the fiscal, monetary and financial pressures threatening the global economy.
Indonesia’s disasters keep outrunning its budget. The country had not even finished recovering from the Sumatra floods when another disaster struck: On August 15, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit the sea off Flores, an island in East Nusa Tenggara province.
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and FOI Senior Partner Glenn Carle, a retired CIA officer who now advises companies, governments and organizations on geopolitical risk, dive into the most important world news of the last month.
There are moments in Brazil’s history when the country’s affairs become almost impossible to explain to a foreigner without sounding as if you had invented part of it. This is one of them.
