Unlike last year’s 12-day conflict, in which Iran’s nuclear facilities were the main targets, this year’s US-Israeli war with Iran has produced much broader and more dangerous results. In addition to military targets and key regime figures, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei,

This is a Facebook message I got from my friend Sunil Pai the other day:

Upon seeing this message, most English speakers will wonder what the hell Sunil and I are talking about.

It has to do with a book he’s reading, called Alex’s Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics. Chapter one covers counting...

The war against Iran has already taken several forms, and it is a month old. The war was announced via Truth Social, without a public address to Congress, and was initially justified as a response to an imminent threat. That framing gave way to a broader invocation of nuclear danger, which gave way in turn to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s more candid

Fair Observer’s Chief Strategy Officer Peter Isackson, former Foreign Secretary of India Kanwal Sibal and Assistant Editor Luna Rovira discuss the landmark January 27 trade agreement between India and the European Union. Sibal frames it in striking terms, calling it the “mother of all deals” because of the scale involved: India’s 1.4 billion-strong market linking wit...

The recent India-US trade deal offers limited economic gains despite being presented as a diplomatic success. The agreement reduces reciprocal US tariffs on Indian goods to 18%, but the material benefits appear modest when asse...