A few weeks ago, as I sat at the dinner table eating eggplant parmesan, my aunt asked me a political question: “How do you make sure you listen to what both sides have to say?” I answered her with a ...

If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And there’s a slightly less common corollary to that: ...

On October 24, a United States presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu that the war is over, because it’s ...

Switzerland plays a pivotal role in global diplomacy and trade, engaging in peace talks and economic partnerships across various regions. From a Swiss perspective, the Russia–Ukraine War has ...

While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that has ...

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 ...

Beijing stimulated the Chinese economy in recent weeks to rebuild consumer and investor confidence. Measures announced to decrease residential real-estate supply and lower deposit and mortgage ...

Over the past two years, experts and pundits have focused on artificial intelligence’s capacities to store and formulate useful knowledge and to accelerate the production of various kinds of artifacts ...

Escalating political tension between the United States and China is throttling the exchange of scientific research and making it harder for the US to attract and retain talented Chinese scholars, ...

In the heart of the Middle East, where golden sands dance in the embrace of the desert winds, a remarkable metamorphosis is unfolding in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This transformation, akin to the ...

Western-style democracies accept the dogma that governments are best or most justly run when each citizen has an equal say in deciding who should govern — the “one person, one vote” principle. For ...

There are many potential starting points in Kamala Harris’s origin story, but perhaps the most relatable begins in India with two parents huddled together deciding whether to send their daughter far ...