Jennifer Hicks

Debates over the artificial intelligence rivalry between the United States and China often revolve around headline metrics: whose large language models perform better on benchmarks, who controls the most advanced semiconductor fabrication nodes, and who i... See more

Former Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has been cleared to travel domestically and abroad after giving statements to two high-profile commissions investigating the violent protests that led to the collapse of his government last year. The decision t... See more

In a functioning democracy, the press is supposed to serve as an early warning system-alerting the public to corruption, abuse of power, and the misuse of taxpayer money. Yet in recent years, America’s legacy media has increasingly abandoned that role, pa... See more

Myanmar’s planned election has drawn predictable international condemnation. Widely dismissed as a hollow exercise organized by a military regime that seized power through force, the vote is seen less as a democratic milestone than as an attempt to manufa... See more

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has moved to freeze federal child care funding to all 50 states, escalating a growing national scandal that began with allegations of widespread fraud in Minnesota’s daycare system. The decision, confir... See more