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Japan 2026: Steering a Reawakened Economic Giant Through the Narrow Strait

Japan’s 2026 outlook reflects a resilient economy transitioning from extraordinary monetary easing toward policy normalization, with domestic demand and labor shortages driving steady growth. The International Monetary Fund emphasizes gradual... Read full article

Masaaki Yoshimori - March 2, 2026

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For Historians, Was This a Pearl Harbor or a Suez Moment? Part 1
by Peter Isackson
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Thinking Out of the Coffin: Doing Away With the $10,000 Toxic Tomb
by J. Freya H. Latwin
Africa
When Skyscrapers Speak Louder Than Clinics in Ethiopia
by Kurniawan Arif Maspul & Ahmed Mohammed Akrem
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The Vintage Guard: Why the American Response to Rivalry Refuses to Grow Old
by Arlen Agliga

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

by Ayan Rakshit, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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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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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

by Ellis Cashmore

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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Is Europe a Possessed Continent?

Europe’s crisis runs deeper than economics or politics — it’s both an identity crisis and a spiritual collapse. Its leaders...

Marco Rubio Reassures Europe to Death

Europe craved reassurance at Munich. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio obliged by delivering hollow platitudes...

Is Silicon Valley’s Next Big Export… Sainthood?

A world dominated by narcissistic celebrities and corporate propaganda is in dire need of a new...

Epstein/Sade: The Philanthropist as Libertine and the Secret Life of the American Elite

Prolific pedophile Jeffrey Epstein crafted a hidden world where elite...

by Elliot Neaman

TRUMP vs. the BBC

by Ellis Cashmore

How Iran Became a Great Power and Why It Hates America and Israel

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

The Hunt for Nationalism in the Age of Dhurandhar

by Mauktik Kulkarni

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The Dialectic: Narendra Modi’s Vegetarian Stalinism Has Ruined the Indian Economy

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle explain how India’s current leader has rolled back the 1991 economic reforms, restoring the extreme centralization of the socialist 1970s. Competitive populism and crony capitalism have led to a dumbbell economy where the babu...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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