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. The key ...

Syria’s plight echoes Iraq’s experience under Saddam Hussein. The collapse of the Assad regime has exposed the vulnerabilities of an overextended state, drawing clear parallels to Iraq’s rapid ...

Following United States President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week, the Republican party should celebrate the dawn of a new golden age. The Make America Great Again (MAGA) party will now ...

Some trade economists argue that moderate tariffs, when carefully calibrated, can enhance national welfare within specific limits. Tariffs increase domestic prices of imported goods and potentially ...

After experimenting with AI chatbots for the past two years, I’ve learned a lot. Because AI theoretically has access to all the text that humans have published, an endless stream of themes — including ...

Last week, I conducted an experiment to demonstrate how we can use an AI chatbot to test and validate, but also critique and refine an original idea or thesis. One clear advantage of artificial ...

Following the well-known strategy of evoking questions on which agreement can be easily established before broaching the more controversial issues, I began with the following prompt. “I would like to ...

Russia illegally and deliberately interfered in the recent Moldovan presidential elections. It may even be laying the groundwork for a false flag operation in Moldova’s Transnistria region, providing ...

Centralization was pervasive in colonial Iberian America, with Spanish America experiencing it longer and more intensely than Brazil. Endless rules, norms and regulations within an overwhelming ...

In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, signaling a shift to coalition governance. Botswana's elections reflected dissatisfaction with the Botswana Democratic Party ...

India’s remarkable transformation has been reflected in its ascent from being labeled one of the “Fragile Five” economies to becoming one of the top five economies worldwide in less than a decade.

I was wandering the radio dial soon after US President Donald Trump’s election victory, while he was in the midst of selecting his dream team of misfits and miscreants to lead his administration to ...