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Why Suicide Is Never a Private Act

Suicide is usually understood as a solitary act: a personal decision, considered and acted on unassisted — the ultimate expression of individual will. In legal and moral imagination alike, suicide... Read full article

Ellis Cashmore - June 1, 2026

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Outside the Box
Quantum Partners: The Case for Human–AI Entanglement
by Peter Isackson
Politics
The Never-Ending Nightmare of the Border Wall
by William deBuys
Central & South Asia
Indonesia Should Not Let Carbon Rules Become a Trade War
by Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara & Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
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Reining in the Pentagon: Can the Military-Industrial Beast Be Tamed?
by William Hartung

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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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Easter and Passover Explained: Two Stories, One Crossing

by Liam Roman, Casey Herrmann & Roberta Artemisia Campani

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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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Has Leo XIV Already Lost to a Silicon Valley Godhead?

Pope Leo XIV’s concerns about AI’s societal impact remind us of St. Vincent de Paul’s 17th-century humanitarian response to war...

What Are Your Plans for Doomsday?

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove once seemed like savage satire, but today its nightmare logic feels uncomfortably...

Have Europe’s Banished Devils Returned?

From the postwar boom to today’s fracturing world order, the West’s “glorious” mid-20th century decades of...

Xi-Trump Summit in Beijing Was Great Theater, Little Substance

The recent US–China summit in Beijing, though symbolically significant as...

by David Mahon

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

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

Donroe Doctrine Makes Guyana Key for US Latin America Policy

by Atul Singh

South America Has Tilted Right. Will Colombia Follow?

by German Peinado Delgado & Glenn Ojeda Vega

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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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