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Beyond the Funeral: What Khamenei鈥檚 Final Farewell Reveals About Iran鈥檚 Next Chapter

Iran recently held a massive state funeral for its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who had been killed early on in the US/Israel鈥揑ran War. Photos show massive crowds, but the funeral... Read full article

Hossein Amjadi - August 7, 2026

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Middle East & North Africa
Riyadh鈥檚 Sudan Contradiction: Mediator by Day, Arms Broker by Night
by Hollie McKay
Culture
Football鈥檚 Filthy Appeal
by Ellis Cashmore
Central & South Asia
Buffering the Wild: Can Agroforestry Solve Human鈥揂nimal Conflicts?
by M Ikhsan Shiddieqy
Middle East & North Africa
Why Iran Strikes Jordan, Not Israel
by Shehab al-Makahleh

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The Fall of the Ottoman Empire

by Kayra Altan & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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FIFA World Cup: The Greatest Show on Earth

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique, Samantha Mendiguren

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The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

by Kayra Altan & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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Mediaphobia 鈥� A Timeline of Panic

by Ellis Cashmore

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The Indian Subcontinent鈥檚 Hindu鈥揗uslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Redrawing Africa: AI Blunders and Colonial Blind Spots

Two African stories 鈥� one comic, one tragic 鈥� collide this week: a State Department slide misdrawing Africa鈥檚 HIV-aid map...

AI, Cheating and Teacher Trickery: Is This Modern Education?

Post-industrial education prizes outcomes over understanding, breeding cheating as a rational response to a system built...

Can Socrates Replace Lindsey Graham?

With 鈥渕ilitary Keynesianism,鈥� US foreign policy shifted from weighing war鈥檚 costs to calculating expected profits. The...

Will the Gen Z-Fueled CJP Achieve What It Set Out To Do?

Education reform campaigner Sonam Wangchuk鈥檚 20-day hunger strike and forceful...

by Vasavi Seethepalli

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

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

Graft Rules: Trump, His Family and His Friends Take Their Cut

by Larry Beck

Lindsey Graham: Requiem for a War Racketeer

by Peter Isackson

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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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