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 ...

The credibility of elite universities has fallen far, and not without reason. For decades, admissions offices singled out Asian-American applicants for unfairly high admissions standards while ...

[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 ...

US President Donald Trump has suddenly sent the world into upheaval by increasing tariffs on all countries that export to the US. His main target has been China. This move will once again fuel China’s ...

On June 14, 2022, the Indian government changed over two centuries of tradition in military recruitment policy. According to the new policy, called Agnipath (“path of fire”), the military inducts new ...

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 ...

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early part of the 20th century, the Middle East has been marked by conflict, violence, political instability, foreign interference, the rise and consequent ...

The world now awaits the iconic puff of white smoke indicating the election of an individual who may be regarded as holding the unique remaining position of power with a claim to exercising a form of ...

Since returning to office in January 2025, US President Donald Trump has aggressively pursued a radical reshaping of US foreign policy. In early March, the State Department terminated foreign ...

US President Donald Trump’s dramatic tariffs, created to allegedly restore the strength of the American industry, may have the opposite effect in one of the country’s most powerful areas: media and ...

As should be obvious by now, ChatGPT is not the only partner we may turn to in our hour of intellectual need. DeepSeek, Grok, Gemini, Co-pilot and others are vying for our attention. So is Pi, whose ...