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 ...

With approximately 11.6 million 60-kg bags forecast and exports nearing 288.2 billion Birr ($200.8 billion), Ethiopia must either transform its irreplaceable Arabica gene pool into a high-value ...

Sarito Carroll lived in Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s commune in Oregon, which collapsed under criminal charges 40 years ago. Like most teenagers in Rajneeshpuram, she was sexually abused there. Now she is ...

Japan’s recent economic history is defined by two contrasting visions: Shinzo Abe’s bold reflationary drive centered on monetary innovation and structural reform, and Fumio Kishida’s pragmatic focus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early part of the 20th century, the Middle East has been marked by conflict, violence, political instability, foreign interference, the rise and consequent ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio — Pope Francis — went home to face his Lord on the morning of Easter Monday, after 12 years on St. Peter’s throne, at the age of 88. From the start of his pontificate, Francis ...

The latest and most exciting development in artificial intelligence is the set of technologies broadly dubbed as generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”). At the core of GenAI are large language ...

Following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December, the new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham government is turning heads. The international community remains skeptical this al-Qaeda-affiliated ...

Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has been overtaken by the Generative AI storm. Investors have put billions of dollars into companies that make the Large Language Models ...