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.
Science is facing a severe crisis of credibility. While high-profile data fabrication makes the headlines, the real threat to public trust lies in a pervasive practice known as "tweaking." Professor Thomas Plümper (Head of Socioeconomics at Vienna University) and Professor Eric Neumayer (Deputy President of the London School of Economics) break down how the subtle manipulation of empirical data is damaging the scientific process and how academia can fix it.
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.
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.
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.
5 minute read. Both Washington and Tehran share blame for the breakdown that led to war, writes Vice Provost Mehrzad Boroujerdi, tracing how mutual distrust, Israeli influence, and strategic rigidity led to war.
4 minute read. The US and Israel are bombing Iran — and SOAS Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam warns this illegal war could drag the entire world into crisis.