The conversation then shifts to the alarming rise of nationalist and authoritarian movements across continents — from Europe and Latin America to parts of Asia and North America. Reitzenstein points ...

Turkey’s economy is in crisis. The country is facing one of the worst economic downturns in its modern history. Inflation has skyrocketed, the Turkish lira has lost significant value, and the cost of ...

International trade has lifted millions of people out of poverty, boosted standards of living, and benefited the United States more than most other countries. Why? The American economic engine thrives ...

Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, his words still capture the epochal change that may await us ...

Periods of inactivity and revival have marked the Quad’s journey. After its initial formation in 2004, the Quad went dormant for several years before reviving in 2017. The Quad’s resurgence in recent ...

Either athletes no longer favor performance-enhancing drugs or, much more likely, pharmaceutical scientists have created designer drugs that are not yet detectable. Fair Observer presents an ...

“In a world as badly made as ours” said Luis Buñuel, “there is only one path—rebellion.” This quote captures the essence of the renowned filmmaker’s life and work, which spanned five decades, three ...

Italy is the least informed country in the world when it comes to immigration. A 2018 poll known as the “Ignorance Index” revealed that the majority of Italian citizens falsely believe that immigrants ...

On March 13, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were — or at least should have been — stunning, even by the standards of a department that’s used to getting ...

In 2006, long before hashtags, Tarana Burke began a grassroots “me too” movement to try and reach women and girl survivors of sexual assault, particularly women of color in low wealth communities. In ...

Literary censorship in Afghanistan has always been part of a larger cultural project of nation-building. Book burning was a common practice in the despotic empires and authoritarian regimes of the ...

Tiantian Zheng explores the intersection between sex work and human trafficking in post-socialist China. This is the first of a three part series. Current statistics showed that China hosted ...