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Lindsey Graham’s Legacy and the Price of Relevance

Senator Lindsey Graham’s death marks the end of a career that embodies the erosion of democratic norms in the US. His late-career compromises and abandonment of democratic norms reflect a... Read full article

Elliot Neaman - July 28, 2026

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Middle East & North Africa
Sudan’s Shadow War Has a Diplomatic Problem
by Hollie McKay
India News
The Middle-Income Trap: Why India’s Industrial Future Requires Social Transformation
by Raghu Gururaj
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

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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...

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...

250 Years of American Scripture

On America’s 250th anniversary, it may be time to think about how the Founders were mythologized...

Will the Gen Z-Fueled CJP Achieve What It Set Out To Do?

Education reform campaigner Sonam Wangchuk’s 20-day hunger strike and forceful...

by Vasavi Seethepalli

The Dialectic: The Mayflower Legacy: A New Telling of the Old Story of America

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

Graft Rules: Trump, His Family and His Friends Take Their Cut

by Larry Beck

Lindsey Graham: Requiem for a War Racketeer

by Peter Isackson

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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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