My continuing conversation with Kimi about the state of education in the digital age was sparked by the startling results of a serious Finnish study that compared the performance of students who had worked with digital devices and spent time on screens with others who had no access to edtech.
Iran, Iraq, Irate. What a world! It couldn’t be much stranger, could it? And by the way, what is it about the Middle East? Since the Gulf War of 1990–1991, it’s just never really ended, has it? Who cares that the region is halfway around the world from Washington, DC? Yes, the US fought Iraq…
Hungary’s 2026 election was a political earthquake. To measure the Richter equivalent size and strength, one needs to conduct an archeological dig around the regime former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán constructed between 2010 and 2026.
No one today would deny that education is in crisis. But of course, it is not alone. Almost everything we view as a foundational institution appears destabilized or disconnected from the reality that once defined it: government, democracy, higher education, international law, the media, the stock ma…
Attracted, mothlike, to the bright lights of media attention at an event that was not about him, US President Donald Trump feverishly sought the soccer spotlight during the summer’s World Cup spectacle in North America.
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and FOI Partner Manu Sharma examine the historic US intervention to support the Japanese yen and what it reveals about a changing global economy. They explain Japan’s importance to international capital markets, growing economic pressure on the country and the risk that tu…
For the second time in less than a decade, the future of regional trade among the North American countries has become uncertain. On July 1, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), under the Trump administration, announced the country’s decision not to renew the US-Mexico-Canada…
The battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz is part of a jigsaw puzzle that, once put together, will depict the post-war political map of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa and their regional security architecture.
Over the last 12 years, I’ve written about a wide variety of subjects for the publication TomDispatch. But looking back, a number of themes stand out to me for their recurrence: racial justice, war (and US military misadventures) and the insistence of women on claiming our humanity.
Bangladesh’s public universities must confront a difficult inheritance. For years, ruling-party student fronts turned residential halls into spaces of surveillance, discipline and fear.
According to the Indian Government’s Economic Survey 2025–26, agricultural and allied activities contribute nearly one-fifth (17–18%) of India’s national income, underscoring their continued importance to the economy.
On 24 June, the Naogaon Battalion (16 BGB) of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) prevented the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) from inserting nine individuals, including women and children, into Bangladeshi territory.
By and large, Canadians are nice. They are easy-going. They are trusting. They tend to laugh at themselves. They are very polite; they even say “sorry” when someone else bumps into them. They’re not brash. And they certainly don’t go about throwing out ambassadors on a whim.
On the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of two Japanese cities, Nagasaki’s Mayor Shiro Suzuki, in the presence of Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, emphatically declared that “humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” It isn’t difficult to sense what Suzuki is getting at.
Fair Observer’s Editor-at-Large Ranjani Iyer Mohanty and lifelong hiker Christine Gabriel explore the enduring appeal of hiking, the skills it demands and the environmental changes reshaping trails around the world.
Across Europe, the pressure to expel failed asylum seekers, particularly those with a criminal record, is growing domestically as public opinion hardens and far-right parties make gains.
For over half a century, Richard M. Nixon has been the personification of a bad president and Watergate a byword for political corruption. In 1974, Nixon was forced into an ignominious resignation, forever becoming America’s political bête noire.
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Josef Olmert, a former Israeli government official and Middle East scholar, examine growing divisions within Israeli politics and society. A dispute between Defense Minister Israel Katz and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) over the future of a senior West Bank commander…
The greatest challenge facing Saudi Arabia in Yemen has never been purely military. It has always been political. Since Riyadh launched its intervention against the Houthi movement in 2015, the Kingdom has possessed overwhelming advantages in conventional military power, air capability and financial…
Most young people have now fully adopted AI chatbots for tasks from homework help to advice about navigating their lives and relationships, and countless others. A December Pew Research report found that 64% of youth aged 13–17 have used them, with around three in ten doing so daily.
Editor Lucy Golish speaks with Bahareh Sahebi, a clinical psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist, about how authoritarian systems shape the psychology of the people who live under them.
In 2026, a company whose entire business was knowing things lost roughly 60% of its value over the past year. Gartner sells research. For decades, executives paid subscription fees for access to analysts who had spent careers accumulating industry knowledge, and the arrangement worked because that k…
Modern monetary policy rests on a simple but powerful idea: Expectations matter. Over the past three decades, central banks have increasingly recognized that monetary policy influences the economy not only through interest rates but also through expectations about future policy.
In my conversation with Claude provoked by an essay in Foreign Affairs analyzing the phenomenon of Washington’s addiction to foreign wars, we got to the point at which Claude pointed to a fundamental structural problem.
