Yes, “shock and awe” (S&A) is back in the second age of US President Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new administration ...

[This short story traces an imaginary future history of the US.] The “United States of America” lasted 12 centuries, although it has long been based primarily in Europe. Today, the last US president, ...

Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers — Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General ...

It all began on February 28 at the most climactic geopolitical moment of 2025, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy confronted an increasingly aggressive tagteam composed of US President Donald Trump and Vice ...

In Part 1, we discussed the current surprisingly extreme rhetoric used by some European leaders in reaction to their sense of having been betrayed by the United States’s new Trump administration ...

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 ...

When EU leaders met in Brussels on February 6 to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this time “a turning point in history.” Western leaders agree that this is a ...

Following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December, the new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham government is turning heads. The international community remains skeptical this al-Qaeda-affiliated ...

At the core of the Red Sea crisis lies a failure to address the catastrophe in Gaza. But the outright failure of the United Nations’s 2018 Stockholm Agreement in Sweden exacerbated the situation. The ...

Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, the entire population of the world has had a fabulous new toy to play with. Artificial intelligence had previously existed as an abstract talking point ...

(Love that is scared is not love… it is debauchery, it is crime.) An artist often holds a concept close to his heart and works upon it for several years, before he finally manages to create an ...

In 1963, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I led the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which outlined essential principles for a free and prosperous Africa. The heads of state ...