Imagine standing amidst the bustling energy of the National Children’s Literature Festival clutching a prize for a short story titled “Healing of Wounds.” The pride and excitement of that defining ...

The 2024 United States presidential election should have provided the easiest path to electoral choice in decades. Even though it should have been easy to identify who should have won, a majority of ...

When United States President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20, 2025, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and almost as quickly end Israel’s war on its ...

Artificial intelligence seems to be a novel concept implanted in public memory owing to recent exorbitant investments and its impact on the job market. However, AI as an idea can be traced back ...

Germany’s government has collapsed following the breakup of its "traffic light" coalition, an alliance between the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens, and Free Democrats (FDP), named after their ...

Concerns of nuclear war are growing internationally. The US has expanded its nuclear deployments while Russia and China have deepened their cooperation. Iran and several Asian countries can quickly ...

After three decades of relative stability since the Cold War, the global landscape has shifted. The unipolar world order that defined geopolitics since the 1990s is crumbling, and a new and ...

In the months since our last installment of Money Matters, alongside continuing wars, we have seen two troubling political developments, troubling in the sense that they have thrown the art of ...

What would have happened if John Lennon hadn’t met Paul McCartney at the Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, Liverpool in 1957? Or if director Brian De Palma hadn’t introduced Martin Scorsese to his ...

Mexico is experiencing a profound shift in its political landscape. The first weeks of Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s administration are marked by concerns of democratic backsliding, ...

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. A ...

Political views strongly influence confidence in cryptocurrencies, as conservatives trust decentralized systems over centralized institutions like the Federal Reserve. They place faith in “distributed ...