In the modern, highly networked global landscape, social media networks, including X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp, are essential for communication, interaction and business.

Jain then explains how fragile DC’s self-government really is. While the city elects a mayor and council, the federal government controls the judiciary and prosecution of adult crimes. Judges are ...

The Syrian crisis began in 2011, when Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s government cracked down violently on protests linked to the Arab Spring uprisings. That repression ignited over a decade of ...

American historian Anne Applebaum coined the term “Autocracy, Inc.” to describe government leaders around the world who function like an agglomeration of like-minded people. They are not united by ...

The series Fair Observer’s Devil’s Dictionary has been running since October 2017. In this final contribution, we return to the very roots of the project: how language, which conveys meaning, can be ...

The reluctance of EU member states to cede national sovereignty has left the EU unable to fulfill its promise of creating a stronger geopolitical union. Forced to devise makeshift solutions and ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate AI chatbots to better understand the productive and deceptive ways in which they “reason.” This is Part 2 of a conversation in which ChatGPT has deconstructed what ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate AI chatbots to better understand the productive and deceptive ways in which they “reason.” This is Part 3 of a series of articles sparked by the visionary fantasies ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate AI chatbots to better understand the productive and deceptive ways in which they “reason.” Together with ChatGPT, we have been analyzing the quality of OpenAI CEO ...

Silicon Valley’s style of reasoning is a topic on its own. Last year, I looked in some depth at the way former Google CEO Eric Schmidt uses “common sense” reasoning to distort reality for amoral and ...

US President Donald Trump accused the Bureau of Labor Statistics of rigging jobs data and fired commissioner Erika McEntarfer after the agency reported disappointing July employment growth and ...

The war in Yemen has dragged on for nearly a decade. Despite thousands of airstrikes, military operations, shifting alliances and failed international peace initiatives, the conflict remains ...