Indonesia is in shock. Our hearts burn with anger, grief and unrelenting outrage over a profound injustice. On August 28, 2025, Affan Kurniawan, a young Gojek driver, was brutally killed in Jakarta ...

Israel’s risky strike against Qatar was neither an unmitigated success in Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s terms nor a complete failure, even if it’s too early for a definitive cost-benefit ...

A recent podcast episode featuring a well-known economist sparked a debate when the guest suggested that “some corruption” might, paradoxically, enhance economic growth in heavily bureaucratic systems ...

[This is the eighth part of a ten-part series. To read more, see Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 here.] Caffè Italiano: The two meet again over coffee and begin ...

Japan’s recent economic history is defined by two contrasting visions: Shinzo Abe’s bold reflationary drive centered on monetary innovation and structural reform, and Fumio Kishida’s pragmatic focus ...

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 ...

In 1971, Nixon’s bold move to end dollar-gold convertibility reshaped global finance, but by 2025, the once-unshakable “our dollar, your problem” mantra signals deeper cracks from internal fiscal ...

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 ...

[This is the seventh part of a ten-part series. To read more, see Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 here.] Caffè Italiano: The two meet again and over coffee, and talk. EU ...

EU bureaucrat: She thinks we’ve failed them because the EU hasn’t done enough. If we had, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Islamofactist: Apportioning responsibility for this only to the EU 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.

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.