Cyclical crises, exemplified by Argentina’s repeated sovereign debt defaults, exhibit recurring patterns of financial distress, currency depreciation and external shocks. The Schumpeterian framework ...

Traditionally, such decisions have been the sole prerogative of PLC Chairman Rashad Al-Alimi, made only after consultation with other council members. By directly appointing a deputy minister for ...

According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 95% of AI projects fail to deliver measurable returns. Our Intrinsicana/Fair Observer team demonstrates that this “Pilot-to-Production ...

About 3,700 kilometers off the Chilean coast, on one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, stand the moai of Rapa Nui. Moai refers to the large, monolithic stone statues of deified ...

Initially a revolutionary guerrilla group in Colombia, the National Liberation Army, has shifted from Marxist ideology to criminal activities and alliances with Venezuela. While it does not fully meet ...

Pakistan’s Vision 2035, which aims to build a $1 trillion economy, is closely tied to its deepening friendship with China. Since the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a decade ago, ...

Iraqi Kurdistan is militarily safer than Russia or the US. That is what I told my security studies teacher eight years ago when I was a freshman in college. My argument was simple: We don’t have ...

In a world where democracy is increasingly being tested, Brazil has become a crucial stage for a symbolic clash. Recently, Paulista Avenue, the economic heart of São Paulo, was the scene of two ...

For much of the post-war era, economic analysis of population aging has focused overwhelmingly on its downsides. The dominant framing, especially in aging advanced economies like Japan, Italy and ...

German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel believed that history unfolded in stages. Celebrity history seems to obey a similar pattern. The first stage is thrilling: novelty, scandal and ...

Let the secular commemorate and the religious pray for the victims. We mourn the roughly 1,200 Israelis murdered on October 7, 2023, and the over 65,000 Palestinians killed since (most of them ...

Last week, in a conversation with Anthropic’s Claude, I lamented the fact that, at least here in the West, every public debate appears to resemble a confrontation rather than a dialogue. I suggested ...