Rapid technological advancements have always outpaced the legal and ethical aspects related to warfare. The strategic bombers used in World War I preceded the laws on civilian targeting.
Since US President Donald Trump’s return to power, he has often floated the idea of a third term. During the 2025 government shutdown, he was photographed with a red “Trump 2028” baseball cap sitting on the Resolute Desk whilst meeting with Democratic congressional leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck…
Colonial Hispanic American elites — meaning the Spaniard upper class born in the Americas — were immensely rich. In many cases, they also belonged to old Spanish lineages. Through endogamous marriages, they structured a closed social class.
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Joost de Kluijver, CEO of Closing the Loop, discuss the growing challenge of electronic waste and why conventional sustainability campaigns have failed to address it.
On July 30, tens of thousands of migrants illegally crossed the Spanish border in Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish enclave bordered by Morocco. International media has dramatized this event, framing it as a breakdown of EU border security.
In my developing conversation with Kimi concerning the effects of technology on education, the LLM used my example of an educational experiment to speculate about how humanity might elaborate a truly constructive (and constructivist) approach to the integration of technology into future classrooms.
Fair Observer’s operations chief of staff Cheyenne Torres and independent policy writer Lora Karch examine what the recent NATO summit reveals about US President Donald Trump’s changing foreign policy.
Fair Observer’s assistant editor Casey Hermann speaks with John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, about US President Donald Trump’s financial activities during his second term.
This month, Europe is enduring its fifth heat wave of the summer. On August 12, new temperature records fell across France and Wales, with towns in northwestern France reaching over 40° C. Heat has now killed more than 25,000 people across the continent this year.
Earlier this month, I launched a conversation with Kimi concerning educational technology with this assertion: “No one today would deny that education is in crisis.” We began by comparing Finland’s educational methodology with that of other Western nations and by citing my own personal experience in…
The memorandum of understanding that was announced between the United States and Iran on June 15 may end up being one of the more consequential diplomatic breakthroughs in recent Middle Eastern history.
Federal Reserve (the Fed) Chair Kevin Warsh has reportedly raised an important question: Should the Federal Open Market Committee reduce its regular policy meetings from eight to six each year? Warsh raised the possibility of six annual meetings as a subject for discussion rather than as a formal pr…
Fair Observer’s operations chief of staff Cheyenne Torres and entrepreneur Dirk Lueth, co-founder and co-CEO of Upland, examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping economies, employment and the media.
There is a particular kind of democratic despair that does not arrive quietly. It builds — through broken promises, through wars launched on false pretenses, through financial crises absorbed by the many while the few walked free. By the time it peaks, voters are not simply disappointed.
Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live great, comedy pioneer, one of the biggest stars in his heyday. Prophet? That description seems odd. You probably remember him as Mr. Robinson, Axel Foley or even Donkey from directors Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson’s Shrek (2001).
Editor-at-Large Ranjani Iyer Mohanty and global social-impact leader Barun Mohanty examine the rise of India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a satirical youth movement born amid anger over exam irregularities and scarce employment.
Tribeverse, a recently released Indian cultural-adventure reality show, raised a host of controversies. Marketed as a celebration of indigenous communities of the North-Eastern state of Nagaland, Tribeverse brought contestants to Nagaland to participate in challenges inspired by local culture and tr…
One of the most famous quotes from the New Testament is St. Paul’s condemnation of something the Greeks called φιλαργυρία. Most English translations require three words to translate the single compound Greek term: “love of money.” Writing in Greek, Paul cited philargyria — literally, “love of silver…
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Beijing-based Kiwi investor David Mahon examine Northeast Asia’s changing balance of power. They discuss declining US military influence, deepening cooperation among China, Russia and North Korea and the growing strategic uncertainty confronting Japan, South Korea and…
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and senior finance professional Sam Tully examine the discontent behind India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests. They discuss the collapse of the education system, widespread graduate unemployment and declining trust in public institutions.
What kind of future are we headed towards? Increasingly, it looks like a place where politics is dominated by egomaniacs with scant regard for realpolitik or any other kind of political reality, while academia is populated by Walter Mitty characters who fantasize they’ve completed Nobel Prize-winnin…
[The people quoted anonymously in this article were reached through online AI companion communities and interviewed via email or chat.] A growing mental health crisis has driven millions to rely on AI companions for emotional and romantic fulfillment.
While Washington’s war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the very real limits of US global power. As US President Donald Trump lurches repeatedly from threats of devastation to promises of peace, it’s becoming increasingly clear that US military…
Fair Observer’s operations chief of staff Cheyenne Torres and veteran investigative journalist and author Craig Unger discuss US President Donald Trump’s decades-long connections to Russian figures and Unger’s argument that Soviet and Russian intelligence cultivated Trump as an asset.
