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“You Dirty ORANGE Maniac! You Blew It All Up! Damn You to Hell!”

US President Donald Trump (that first part hurts to say!) carries on his aim to drill endlessly for fossil fuels, stamp out American green energy and bomb Iran mercilessly, all... Read full article

Tom Engelhardt - May 26, 2026

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Outside the Box
Hyperreal Politics: When the Simulation Becomes Too Absurd to Satirize — Part 2
by Peter Isackson
Election News
Sweden’s Election and the Dangerous Fiction of Becoming “a Muslim Country”
by Vladen Lausevic
Outside the Box
Hyperreal Politics: When the Simulation Becomes Too Absurd to Satirize — Part 1
by Peter Isackson
Technology
How Drones Are Transforming Infrastructure Monitoring
by Dania Akram

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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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What Are Your Plans for Doomsday?

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove once seemed like savage satire, but today its nightmare logic feels uncomfortably real. The evolution from...

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...

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...

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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