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Air Quality Sensors Overestimate Industrial Pollution in the Gulf Coast

A five-month audit near the Louisiana Industrial Corridor finds that low-cost Air Quality Index (AQI) sensors exhibit a systematic bias of 14.87% in high-humidity conditions, as atmospheric moisture is misidentified... Read full article

Kunal Goyal - May 16, 2026

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Regimentation in Education: Stricter the School, Sneakier the Child
by Ira Tanwani
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“Go Back to India!”: The Erosion of Multicultural Canada
by Rezgar Omer
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From an Old Journalist, Another Letter to the Tribe
by Arnold Isaacs
Science & Technology
How to Talk to Young People About AI
by Mark Cummings

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Mediaphobia — A Timeline of Panic

by Ellis Cashmore

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu–Muslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Easter and Passover Explained: Two Stories, One Crossing

by Liam Roman, Casey Herrmann & Roberta Artemisia Campani

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

by Vikram K. Malkani, Atul Singh & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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Have Europe’s Banished Devils Returned?

From the postwar boom to today’s fracturing world order, the West’s “glorious” mid-20th century decades of prosperity masked a darker...

A Taste for Genocide: Why the West Can’t Shake Its Most Violent Habits

From the scorched earth of the Thirty Years’ War to the “Strait of Hormuz Apocalypse,” the...

Democracy’s Creed: Inspiring Words, Silenced Voices

Abraham Lincoln’s vision of democracy — government of, by and for the people — may lack...

FO Exclusive: US–Iran Double Blockade of Hormuz Threatens Global Economy

In this section of the April 2026 episode of FO...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

Staged? Why Conspiracy Theories Are Stupid, but Also Bad Politics

by Elliot Neaman

The Fertilizer Fault Line: The Hidden System That Could Trigger the Next Global Crisis

by Masaaki Yoshimori

After Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV Combines Continuity With Change

by Anton Schauble

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FO Podcasts: Why Narcoterrorism Still Matters

In this episode of FO Podcasts, Atul Singh and Jeffrey James Higgins examine how narcoterrorism combines organized crime, insurgency and geopolitical conflict. They discuss the rise of synthetic opioids and how cartels in Latin America increasingly resemble paramilitary organizations capable of challenging state authority. Should...

by Jeffrey James Higgins & Atul Singh

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