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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concerns of nuclear war are growing internationally. The US has expanded its nuclear deployments while Russia and China have deepened their cooperation. Iran and several Asian countries can quickly ...

Sexual assault threatens women across the globe. While some countries are more dangerous than others, harmful cultural norms, censorship and cover-ups also occur in more progressive countries like the ...

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 ...

Germany’s government has collapsed following the breakup of its "traffic light" coalition, an alliance between the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens, and Free Democrats (FDP), named after their ...

The 2024 United States presidential election should have provided the easiest path to electoral choice in decades. Even though it should have been easy to identify who should have won, a majority of ...

Part of the Chagos Archipelago, Diego Garcia is a strategic atoll in the central Indian Ocean. Located halfway between Africa and Indonesia, the island forms a natural harbor, and its location has ...