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The Middle-Income Trap: Why India’s Industrial Future Requires Social Transformation

India’s challenge is not a lack of growth, but rather the absence of deep industrial “middle layers” that historically powered the rise of advanced economies. While India has built strong... Read full article

Raghu Gururaj - July 27, 2026

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Science & Technology
You Don’t Need Data Centers to Win the AI Race
by Jake Brukhman
Asia-Pacific
The Monarchical Economy: How Political Dynasties Fuel Philippine Inflation
by Trixie Rose Aspirin
Economics and Finance
Graft Rules: Trump, His Family and His Friends Take Their Cut
by Larry Beck
Politics
Charlie Kirk, Otto von Bismarck and the Use of Culture Wars as Statecraft
by Ioannis Mademlis

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FIFA World Cup: The Greatest Show on Earth

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique, Samantha Mendiguren

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The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

by Kayra Altan & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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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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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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Can Socrates Replace Lindsey Graham?

With “military Keynesianism,” US foreign policy shifted from weighing war’s costs to calculating expected profits. The Devil’s Advocate cites his...

Lindsey Graham: Requiem for a War Racketeer

Lindsey Graham is gone, and the tributes pour in for a "masterful operator." But operator of...

Time to Update Bacon’s Critique of Our “Corrupt Love of the Lie”

Francis Bacon’s essay “Of Truth” masks his own service to Elizabethan surveillance and political deception. Security...

Palantir and the Techno-Oligarchs: Honeyed Reason, or Crushing Hegemony?

Western democracies have entered a period dominated by techno-oligarchs, e.g.,...

by Alan Waring

Weaponized Uncertainty: Geopolitical Fragmentation and Development in the Global South

by Masaaki Yoshimori

Andy Burnham and “Manchesterism”: The New Face of Populism?

by Kent Jenkins Jr.

Book Banning, Alberta Style: Censorship in the Classroom

by Margaret Smale

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FO Podcasts: What the West Ignores About China’s Digital Nationalism

In this episode of FO Podcasts, Florian Schneider and Haruko Satoh argue that digital nationalism is a defining force shaping modern China. They examine how visa policy, social media algorithms, youth unemployment and patriotic education reinforce one another while revealing tensions within China. Digital politics...

by Florian Schneider & Haruko Satoh

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