Pope Leo Warns of AI’s Risks to Humanity
6 minute read. Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, names AI a defining moral challenge of our time. Three Australian Catholic University scholars explain.
Yes, Democracies Are Controlled by the Superrich
6 minute read. Why hasn't two centuries of free voting curbed inequality? Jeffrey Winters, Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, says the answer lies in a blind spot: democracy was built to serve oligarchs all along.
Richard Feynman was Wrong about Truth and Beauty in Science
5 minute read. Did Feynman get beauty and truth wrong? Massimo Pigliucci, K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at City College of New York, says yes — and explains why it matters.
Probiotic Supplements: Should You Take Them?
Do probiotics actually work? Berenice Langdon, Senior Lecturer at St. George's, University of London, weighs the evidence behind a booming supplement industry.
When Will the AI Bubble Meet Gravity?
4 minute read. Are we watching another tech bubble? Dean Baker (CEPR) revisits the irrational exuberance of the late 1990s, when stocks from Ford to Cisco soared and crashed, and warns today's AI giants may face the same fate as Chinese rivals squeeze margins.
The Global AI Threat Is Already Here
S. Alex Yang (London Business School) and Angela Huyue Zhang (USC) warn that leading the AI race won't keep America safe. Mythos-like tools make every nation vulnerable — and demand US-China diplomacy, not triumphalism.
Why Iran is Beating America
5 minute read. "A superpower that once felt invulnerable must now reckon with adversaries that can drain its coffers, bleed its allies, and upend its strategic calculations," warns Brahma Chellaney of the Center for Policy Research, signaling that the era of cost-free US wars is definitively over.
Militaries Should Prevent Wars, Not Start Them
5 minute read. A nation's military is like a fire extinguisher — you keep one because you're prudent, not because you want to use it, argues Lee Cronk, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
KAMADIA: Is Iran Winning the War? Religion, Power and Unintended Consequences
In this urgent geopolitical Q&A, Aly Kamadia, Editor-in-Chief of iDose Magazine, breaks down the catastrophic US-Israeli war on Iran, exploring the dangerous mix of regional ambitions, religious extremism, and asymmetric warfare.