The peculiarities of classical Greece make empirical theories of political revolution much easier to imagine than in, say, the Persian Empire, which was a hereditary monarchy for pretty much its ...

Legal deforestation has stripped Sumatra’s watersheds of natural flood defenses, turning extreme rainfall into a predictable humanitarian disaster. Plantation expansion and sanctioned land clearing ...

The AI industry faces bottlenecks in chip production and financing as models grow exponentially larger. Semiconductor companies and AI startups confront financial and technical challenges that could ...

The Southern Transitional Council has expanded its reach in southern Yemen and shifted the balance of power in the war. The Houthi movement rejects southern ambitions and vows to hold national ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...

France is facing rapidly mounting debt, which has resulted in a dangerous political paralysis. The country has cycled through five prime ministers in two years. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ...

Atul and Glenn explain how Germany rose from the ashes of defeat in World War II to create a postwar economic miracle. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Germany faced integration problems but ...

Taylor Swift and J.K. Rowling — arguably two of the world’s most influential women — face renewed public criticism as their art and opinions dominate global debate. Swift’s new album and Rowling’s ...

Thanks to rising prices and cost-of-living crisis, right-wing populists have broken through in the election for the upper house of the Japanese parliament. This weakens the long-dominant Liberal ...

Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat mayoral candidate for New York, has caught the fancy of many around the world. Yet when we take a closer look at him, the 33-year-old does not appear so wonderful. If ...

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. Most of ...