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By and large, Canadians are nice. They are easy-going. They are trusting. They tend to laugh at themselves. They are very polite; they even say “sorry” when someone else bumps into them. They’re not brash. And they certainly don’t go about throwing out ambassadors on a whim. So, I was surprised to hear that a… Continue reading The Procurator, the Petition and the People’s Pride: Canada’s Removal…
On the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of two Japanese cities, Nagasaki’s Mayor Shiro Suzuki, in the presence of Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, emphatically declared that “humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” It isn’t difficult to sense what Suzuki is getting at. But is he right or wrong? If we treat it as… Continue reading Nagasaki Remembered… and Its Lesson Forgotten? The…
Fair Observer’s Editor-at-Large Ranjani Iyer Mohanty and lifelong hiker Christine Gabriel explore the enduring appeal of hiking, the skills it demands and the environmental changes reshaping trails around the world. Drawing on decades of experience across Canada and abroad, Gabriel reflects on how hiking builds resilience, community and appreciation for nature. She also explains practical……
Across Europe, the pressure to expel failed asylum seekers, particularly those with a criminal record, is growing domestically as public opinion hardens and far-right parties make gains. But deportations to Afghanistan effectively stopped after 2021, because the Taliban refused to accept the deportees. The Taliban has been pushing for concessions in exchange for permission to… Continue reading How…
For over half a century, Richard M. Nixon has been the personification of a bad president and Watergate a byword for political corruption. In 1974, Nixon was forced into an ignominious resignation, forever becoming America’s political bête noire. His administration’s involvement in the break-in and wiretap at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate… Continue…
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Josef Olmert, a former Israeli government official and Middle East scholar, examine growing divisions within Israeli politics and society. A dispute between Defense Minister Israel Katz and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) over the future of a senior West Bank commander highlights tensions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and… Continue…
The greatest challenge facing Saudi Arabia in Yemen has never been purely military. It has always been political. Since Riyadh launched its intervention against the Houthi movement in 2015, the Kingdom has possessed overwhelming advantages in conventional military power, air capability and financial resources. Yet after years of conflict, the Houthis remain entrenched in northern… Continue reading…
Most young people have now fully adopted AI chatbots for tasks from homework help to advice about navigating their lives and relationships, and countless others. A December Pew Research report found that 64% of youth aged 13–17 have used them, with around three in ten doing so daily. It is widely understood that chatbots tuned… Continue reading Kids’ AI Chatbot Legislation Must Treat Both the…
Editor Lucy Golish speaks with Bahareh Sahebi, a clinical psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist, about how authoritarian systems shape the psychology of the people who live under them. Drawing on Sahebi’s professional expertise and her experience as an Iranian American, they explore how fear, uncertainty and collective trauma influence relationships, family dynamics and… Continue…
In 2026, a company whose entire business was knowing things lost roughly 60% of its value over the past year. Gartner sells research. For decades, executives paid subscription fees for access to analysts who had spent careers accumulating industry knowledge, and the arrangement worked because that knowledge was genuinely hard to assemble on your own.… Continue reading Abundance Has a Landlord: AI…
Modern monetary policy rests on a simple but powerful idea: Expectations matter. Over the past three decades, central banks have increasingly recognized that monetary policy influences the economy not only through interest rates but also through expectations about future policy. Inflation, investment, asset prices and financial conditions all depend on how households, firms and investors… Continue…
In my conversation with Claude provoked by an essay in Foreign Affairs analyzing the phenomenon of Washington’s addiction to foreign wars, we got to the point at which Claude pointed to a fundamental structural problem. The deeper diagnosis your Empire Envy framework points to is right, I think: it’s not that Washington forgets to ask… Continue reading Empire Envy and Forked Tongues: How…
Western media is engaging in a subtle syntactical trick to discredit Palestinian loss of life in Gaza. This trick came into effect from the beginning of the Israeli invasion of Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023. Western media uses certain phrases repeatedly to shape the narrative, which mitigates the genocidal military and… Continue reading The Syntax of Erasure: How Western…
