The 2024 United States presidential election was framed as a crucial test for the nation’s political system. It brought ongoing concerns over oligarchy, mob rule, a breakdown of equal protection under ...

On August 15, 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” He spoke famously of the nation ...

Socrates famously disturbed the Athenian order by engaging in an open, exploratory dialogue with fellow Athenians interested in serious issues concerning society, virtue and what he called the “good ...

In April 1949, as Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union intensified, 12 nations came together to sign the North Atlantic Treaty, giving birth to NATO. The alliance was formed ...

Imagine standing amidst the bustling energy of the National Children’s Literature Festival clutching a prize for a short story titled “Healing of Wounds.” The pride and excitement of that defining ...

This led me to offer a new prompt. ChatGPT’s response is well worth examining in detail. “Could we imagine an AI agent that has integrated all these skills of recognizing and weighing the importance ...

Of all of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, DC. He is the ...

On my way to a departing flight, I passed through gleaming corridors of Dulles Airport in Washington, DC — a gateway designed to project the wealth and power of a nation. Yet, amid the polished marble ...

In November 2023, an EU delegation conducted a five-day visit to Bangladesh in order to evaluate the country’s labor conditions. Bangladesh, frequently under scrutiny for its labor practices, has made ...

jaa tan ki jhaaim paraim syaama harit duti hoi. Sri Radha, Krishna’s soulmate and paramour, is a unique phenomenon in the religious and spiritual history not just of India but of the world. In no ...

Precisely three years ago, in November 2021, Reuters featured this headline: “U.S. Pentagon fails fourth audit but sees steady progress.” Both the Department of Defense (DoD) and Reuters hoped at the ...

In the months since our last installment of Money Matters, alongside continuing wars, we have seen two troubling political developments, troubling in the sense that they have thrown the art of ...