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The American Experiment Today: What Endures, What Is Tested

The United States is, by any historical measure, an extraordinarily successful political experiment. A republic founded in 1776 with a population of around…

Indian Democracy Structure History Elections Rights and Challenges of the World's Largest Democratic System

largest democracy, with more than one billion eligible voters participating in elections. The democratic system of India allows citizens to choose their re…

The American University System: The World's Most Powerful Knowledge Engine

There is something remarkable about the fact that for decades, the best students and researchers from across the world have gotten on planes to come to the…

Democracy in India Structure History Challenges and Future of the World's Largest Democratic Nation

Democracy in India is one of the most significant political systems in the modern world. India is often described as the largest democracy in the world, wi…

Dubai's Cultural Institutions: Art, Heritage, and Museums

The cultural narrative around Dubai used to be simple — there wasn't any. That narrative is now outdated. The Museum of the Future, which opened in 2022…

DIFC: The Financial Hub That Put Dubai on the Global Map

The Dubai International Financial Centre occupies a small but significant patch of land between Sheikh Zayed Road and the financial district, and within it…

The Marshall Plan: How America Built the World It Wanted to Live In

In June 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall gave a commencement address at Harvard that would change the postwar world. He proposed that the United St…

Silicon Valley: How a California Valley Changed the Entire World

There is a strip of land between San Francisco Bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains that, in the span of about fifty years, produced more transformative techno…

Reagan and the Reinvention of American Conservatism

By 1980, the United States was in a bad mood. Inflation had been running in double digits. The economy was mired in stagflation — the combination of high…

Finance and Banking Jobs in Dubai: Breaking Into the Sector

Dubai has established itself as the Middle East's leading financial centre, and DIFC is the epicentre of that ecosystem. Major investment banks including G…

Hollywood and Soft Power: How America Won Hearts Before Arguments

Joseph Nye coined the term soft power in 1990 to describe the ability to influence others through attraction and persuasion rather than coercion. He was de…

Why Humans Are Terrible at Understanding Risk

People are more afraid of flying than driving, even though driving is dramatically more dangerous per mile traveled. People buy lottery tickets — a tax o…

Foucault: Power, Knowledge, and the Self

Michel Foucault radically reshaped how we think about power. He argued that power isn’t just something held by the state or a ruler—something that repr…

The Roaring Twenties: American Consumer Culture Is Born

The nineteen twenties in America were years of dizzying transformation in the texture of everyday life. The automobile went from novelty to necessity. Radi…

Claude for Non-Profits: Making AI Work on a Limited Budget

Non-profits have always had to do more with less, and Claude is proving to be a genuine force multiplier for organizations that can't afford large teams bu…

The Aftermath: Rebuilding a Broken World

When the guns finally fell silent, the world faced an unprecedented crisis. The war had destroyed entire cities, shattered economies, and left millions hom…

The Ethics of Using AI Like Claude: Practical Considerations

Using AI tools like Claude raises real ethical questions that thoughtful users should think through. Not all of them have clean answers, but being delibera…

3 Idiots (2009): Rajkumar Hirani's Iconic Comedy-Drama

Article 15 (2019): Anubhav Sinha's Haunting Social Thriller

Anubhav Sinha's Article 15 is not an easy watch, but it's an essential one. Inspired by real-life events, the film follows Ayan Ranjan (Ayushmann Khurrana)…

Talvar (2015): Meghna Gulzar's Riveting Real-Life Crime Drama

Talvar is a chilling, fact-based exploration of the 2008 Noida double murder case that gripped India. Meghna Gulzar directs with remarkable restraint, pres…