Political views strongly influence confidence in cryptocurrencies, as conservatives trust decentralized systems over centralized institutions like the Federal Reserve. They place faith in “distributed ...

After three decades of relative stability since the Cold War, the global landscape has shifted. The unipolar world order that defined geopolitics since the 1990s is crumbling, and a new and ...

[You can read “If She Loses, Part 1: Kamala Wrong on the Issues” here.] Democratic US presidential candidate Kamala Harris has never won a single primary vote in the 2020 or 2024 elections, so at ...

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. A ...

In 1958, sixteen-year-old William Arnold asked his parents for permission to use the family’s car. He wanted to go to the movies. When his father refused, he took a rifle, shot both parents dead and ...

Both experts on fascism and fascists themselves recognize that Donald Trump does not endorse the revolutionary, far-right authoritarianism that characterizes fascism. But Trump is a golden opportunity ...

The results of Austria’s September 29 parliamentary election did not differ much from what polls had indicated for over a year. Nevertheless, they came as a surprise to the political establishment.

In this episode of FO° Podcasts, Atul Singh interviews Martin Plaut about South Africa’s complex past. They discuss the country’s early formation, starting with the arrival of the Dutch in 1652 and ...

In December 2023, Time previewed 2024 as “The Ultimate Election Year.” It counted programmed elections in “at least 64 countries (plus the European Union).” In the final count, there were more than 64 ...

US President Donald Trump’s biggest strategic mistake when he was in the White House was one of entropy. As physicists explain, a closed system invariably tends towards disorder. In more common ...

While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that has ...

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. This ...