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 ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT with two goals: to better understand how AI “reasons” and to use its capacity to better understand how we humans reason. There’s a big difference, which ...

Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror. Both ...

Our global society is going through a difficult period that is producing a lot of anxiety, alienation and anger. What underlies these negative feelings is a social transition known as an inflection ...

At the end of the former’s administration, US President Joe Biden and then-President-Elect Donald Trump worked together to end the Israel–Hezbollah war in Lebanon, setting the country on a path toward ...

On March 16, the Houthis claimed that the US airstrikes on Yemen have killed over 50 and injured about 100. The Houthis have declared that they would retaliate with their missiles. However, they have ...

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.

[This is a response to the piece “On Women’s New ‘Right’ to Have ‘Sex Like Men, ” which Rahul Sur published in Fair Observer on December 17, 2023.] After more than half a century of the sexual ...

The most shocking scandal to date of the two-month-old administration of US President Donald Trump broke this week when Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, revealed that he had been ...

What is behind US President Donald Trump’s bromance with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Is it essentially personal? Is there a strategy involved? Is it ideological? Is it the first step within a ...

Your pushback is exactly why AI—if it is to be useful for dialogue—must be careful not to adopt establishment framings as default truths. My initial response showed a bias toward prevailing Western ...

In Part 1, we began a discussion of the arguments developed by economist Jeffrey Sachs concerning the historical causes and geopolitical lessons to be drawn from the war in Ukraine. Sachs, like many ...