In this episode of FO° Podcasts, Atul Singh interviews Martin Plaut about South Africa’s complex past. They discuss the country’s early formation, starting with the arrival of the Dutch in 1652 and ...

On October 24, a United States presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu that the war is over, because it’s ...

In December 2023, Time previewed 2024 as “The Ultimate Election Year.” It counted programmed elections in “at least 64 countries (plus the European Union).” In the final count, there were more than 64 ...

The results of Austria’s September 29 parliamentary election did not differ much from what polls had indicated for over a year. Nevertheless, they came as a surprise to the political establishment.

After three decades of relative stability since the Cold War, the global landscape has shifted. The unipolar world order that defined geopolitics since the 1990s is crumbling, and a new and ...

Over the past two years, experts and pundits have focused on artificial intelligence’s capacities to store and formulate useful knowledge and to accelerate the production of various kinds of artifacts ...

Keeping track of the multitude of institutions within the European Union has never been an easy task. Occasionally, one of them produces news worth reporting. And sometimes that news promises to have ...

While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that has ...

[You can read “If She Loses, Part 1: Kamala Wrong on the Issues” here.] Democratic US presidential candidate Kamala Harris has never won a single primary vote in the 2020 or 2024 elections, so at ...

Cyprus has long been called Nisi Afroditi (“Aphrodite’s Island”), as the Greeks believed Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was born here. Despite this friendly moniker and the country’s rich culture, ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

Tensions in the Horn of Africa are escalating, driven by disputes over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, which threatens Egypt's vital water supply from the Nile. Ethiopia harbors ambitions to expand ...