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Beyond October 7: Memory, Mourning and the Need for Collective Healing

It’s been two years since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, a day many regard as “Year Zero” of the Israel–Palestine conflict, concealing decades of violence. Israel mourns those... Read full article

Roberta Artemisia Campani - October 7, 2025

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Why Do Americans Want To Buy Premier League Football Clubs?
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Antoine van Agtmael

Peter Isackson

Rohan Bedi

John Bruton

Atul Singh

Glenn Carle

Alex Gloy

Roberta Artemisia Campani

Medea Benjamin

Garima Garg

Halmat Palani

Ali Omar Forozish

Sanjeev Chopra

Mehdi Alavi

Christopher Roper Schell

Jennifer Wider

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Trial by Fire: A Final Spectacle in the Waning Days of Hippiedom

by John Elliott

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Sex and Sports

by Ellis Cashmore

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Sociology of the Olympics

by Ellis Cashmore

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MURDER MOST FOUL

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A Beautiful Boat Ride in Kashmir

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Sex in (and Out of) the White House

by Ellis Cashmore

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Cities Under Water

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A Saint (Charlie Kirk) and a Devil (Tony Blair) in the Headlines

Who today isn’t curious to learn about the diabolical processes at play around an assassination in Utah and a genocide...

No Bones About It: The Canonization of Charlie Kirk

In our age of mass media, no event has more power to spontaneously produce a dominant...

A Tale of Two Robinsons: Tyler and Tommy

The mood in both the US and UK turned towards potential civil war. On September 10,...

Spain Imposes Arms Embargo on Israel as Pro-Palestine Protesters Disrupt Vuelta

Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted the final stage of Spain’s Vuelta cycling...

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A Tale of Two Robinsons: Tyler and Tommy

by Peter Isackson

Perspective From the Right on the Charlie Kirk Assassination

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Anatomy of the Mushroom Murders

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Project 2025 and Donald Trump’s Dangerous Dismantling of the US Federal Government

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle dissect US President Donald Trump’s destruction of federal institutions. They connect today’s policies to US President Ronald Reagan-era conservatism and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. Warning of creeping authoritarianism, they argue the United States...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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FO° Podcasts: Why Has Trump Deployed Thousands of National Guard Troops in Washington, DC?

In this episode of FO° Podcasts, Atul Singh and Ankit Jain examine US President Donald...

by Ankit Jain & Atul Singh

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FO° Podcast: The Story of Millions of Syrian Refugees and Why They Can Never Return Home

In this episode of FO° Podcasts, Atul Singh and William McChesney examine why millions of...

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

In this episode of The Dialectic podcast, Atul and Glenn explore how Iran’s imperial history,...

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FO° Exclusive: Economic Pain and Political Turmoil Around the World

Our Devil Closes His Dictionary and Muses on Its Roots

The series Fair Observer’s Devil’s Dictionary has been running since October 2017. In this final contribution, we return to the very roots of the project: how language, which conveys meaning, can be used to distort the perception of meaning. With a glance at one of...
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