In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, ...

Earlier this year, a controversy erupted over a portrait of US President Donald Trump in the Colorado Capitol building. This incident is a recent example of the president’s interest in the arts.

Sarito Carroll lived in Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s commune in Oregon, which collapsed under criminal charges 40 years ago. Like most teenagers in Rajneeshpuram, she was sexually abused there. Now she is ...

When we learned of “the end of history,” a little over three decades ago, our geopolitical meteorologists forecasted sunny skies for the neoliberal reality that was coursing across the globe.

For centuries, the Middle East has stood at the crossroads of civilization and conflict. Despite the formal establishment of modern nation-states, the region has failed to achieve internal political ...

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 ...

Thanks to rising prices and cost-of-living crisis, right-wing populists have broken through in the election for the upper house of the Japanese parliament. This weakens the long-dominant Liberal ...

Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...

“Outside the Box” explores the kind of collaborative behavior we humans can develop with chatbots, with the idea of discovering how this might help us, both individually and collectively. Last week, I ...

In the early decades of the 21st century, a new breed of oligarch has emerged: the global tech titan. Once hailed as visionary disruptors, these men — Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, ...

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. Most of ...

Atul Singh: Welcome to the fifth edition of 2025’s FO° Exclusive. Last month, we covered Donald Trump’s new economic revolution via tariffs and more, the Pakistan–India clash and Mark Carney’s victory ...