The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks. On September 22, 2024, a headline from CNN ...

In one month, the United States will undergo another one of its regularly programmed national psychodramas: a presidential election. It’s a mix of three p’s: personality, policy and power, with a ...

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Today, Pakistan and China are at odds with India over strategic territory in the icy Himalayas. At stake is not only Kashmir but also the neighboring regions of Jammu and Ladakh. This conflict, which ...

A Washington Post headline reads: “A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire.” For the first time in history, reports Aden Barton, five generations are competing in the ...

The Associated Press reports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination required to ...

There just are not a whole lot of larger-than-life heroes left in the US. I am not sure why, but perhaps putting it under a microscope robs most celebrity of its panache and leaves so many potential ...

[This piece is a continuation of a multi-part series. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 here.] The support of the Brazilian militias and the Neo-Pentecostal churches may have guaranteed Brazilian ...

Observers are increasingly sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence-driven military decision-making systems (AIMDS). AIMDS are instruments that employ AI methods to evaluate data, offer ...

2024 marks 400 years since the founding of New Amsterdam (now New York) by the Dutch colonists. American-born Harrison May now calls “Old” Amsterdam his home. He is the person behind the popular ...

Last Thursday, the front page of Le Monde featured a headline in its running commentary on the war in Ukraine: “Vladimir Putin assures that Russia is ready for negotiations with Kiev on the basis of ...

In 2006, Facebook launched its News Feed feature, sparking seemingly endless contentious public discourse on the power of the “social media algorithm” in shaping what people see online. Nearly two ...