[Usama Malik wrote this article before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Although it does not reflect post-election events, Fair Observer believes the analysis remains insightful and relevant.] The ...

The journey into what statistician Erica Thompson calls “Model Land” began innocuously enough. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the emergence of statistical methods that promised to bring ...

Our friend and collaborator Gary Grappo’s insightful and disturbing account of the geopolitical reality of a region he knows very well turns out to be informative in ways that he may not have intended ...

The world of macroeconomic forecasting could probably always use a disruption that enhances accuracy. One such comes from experts at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and elsewhere, who ...

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. With ...

Today’s security landscape reflects threat convergence — a reality where no catastrophe remains localized and the lines between physical and cyber threats and war and peace blur. The result is a ...

In the early 1980s, many Latin and South American countries, including those with big economies such as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, suffered a debilitating foreign exchange crisis and were unable to ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio — Pope Francis — went home to face his Lord on the morning of Easter Monday, after 12 years on St. Peter’s throne, at the age of 88. From the start of his pontificate, Francis ...

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 ...

That which may be done with the stroke of a pen may be undone with the stroke of a pen. This simple maxim is, in its two separate clauses, the nursery and the gallows of every piece of progressive ...

To try to foresee the next four years with US President-Elect Donald Trump, we should remember what we learned during his first presidential term: It is a mistake to take him literally and mock him ...

When Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election, the media filled with breathless headlines about the collapse of democracy. Trump’s victory was certainly the collapse of something, but ...