Reconciling with economic and cultural change as a society, particularly after a global financial crisis or a major technological innovation, inevitably engenders widespread fear.

The current ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is part of a broader agreement under the U.S.-constructed 20-point peace plan, the first phase of which was agreed to by both parties on the 8th of October.

Tech companies consistently oppose AI regulation, using disagreement among experts over the risks of AI as leeway against its sweeping implementation.

Proxy wars are conflicts in which a third party intervenes indirectly in a pre-existing war to influence the strategic outcome in favour of its preferred faction1. Proxy wars are a mechanism that allows state or non-state actors to further their own strategic goals without directly engaging in warfare themselves.

“Propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state… the bewildered herd won’t know any different” – Noam Chomsky, 1991.

In recent years, the U.S. political landscape has gotten extremely volatile. As spectators, it’s impossible not to tangibly feel how commoditised it has become for online spectacle, taking up the majority of the hour on any American news free-to-air channel (not to mention those of its allies).

On the 3rd of September, China held its Victory Day Parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

The negotiation between competing interests has become ever more valuable, a true marker of intellect and emotional intelligence—arriving at an educated conclusion with another living, breathing human being. And to make this one’s profession? That is the ultimate in chic—a distinguished icon of sophistication.

It seems ever so frequent that we are discussing global events in living rooms, restaurants, workplaces, and anywhere else we can gather to try to grasp what is happening with our neighbours and in our beloved cities.

As we’ve discussed previously on Parlé, the skills gap among young people is, to some extent, driven by employers' reservations about training emerging professionals in their prospective field.

On the 16th of June, the United Nations (U.N.) released a report from its Special Rapporteur (Francesca Albanese) on the potential role of corporations in assisting the Israeli military in its operations in what it recognises as occupied Palestinian territories.

Why did many feel the need to rebut these ideas with an intellectual response, when clearly that’s what they were rejecting? Ultimately, movements must always do one thing – move forward until they can’t anymore.

Pearl Harbour, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire deal, and U.S. Strikes on Iran.