There is a woman at Anthropic whose job title, in plain English, is something close to the keeper of Claude's conscience.

Health encapsulates economic activity that amounts to trillions of dollars by the—in this context crude—methodology of collating production of goods and services as gross domestic product (GDP). The ...

Though Lebanon has a high international capacity coming in through underwater fiber optic cables — to the likes of several hundreds of megabits per second (Mbit/s) — internet speeds at the actual ...

On January 25, 2015, the creation of a union for domestic workers was announced in Beirut. In an atmosphere teeming with excitement, more than 200 women who work in Lebanese homes — including ...

Israel’s long-prepared revenge strike against their arch-enemy Hezbollah under a pretext of securing the return of their internally displaced population to the northern holy land, long ago a peaceful ...

Public transport is part of Lebanon’s mobility heritage, as is evident by our popular culture. In the song entitled “Ala Hadir el-Bosta,” the late Joseph Sakr sings of his love Alia’s pretty eyes ...

In terms of number estimates, what do you see as the total cost of Lebanon’s recovery from war damages and economic meltdown, and what would you say the opportunity costs of conflict (the foregone ...

Health and wellness have long been an integral part of Middle Eastern culture. The most common Arabic phrase used for greeting someone—keef el-sohat?—asks after a person’s health. Another common ...

This analysis was written as part of a Special Report on the repercussions of war across six polities from October 7 th, 2023-December 2025 Two narrative strands of economic disintegration and ...

Lebanon stands today not only at the edge of economic collapse but also at the center of a profound governance crisis. The financial meltdown that began in 2019 unveiled structural failures in public ...

Editor’s Note: This article was written before the outbreak of the current conflict in Lebanon and does not include considerations relevant to conflict’s impact on exchange rates and monetary policies ...

Key economic data for the six polities and jurisdictions yield limited or indirect information on the impact of armed interstate and asymmetric Arab-Israeli conflicts and specifically the October 7, ...