The author is the president of Taejae University. Another year is drawing to a close. In retrospect, 2025 stands out as a year in which phenomena and orders once regarded as “normal” in the 20th ...

Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal, told The Times of Israel on Sunday that Riyadh is currently not even entertaining the idea of normalizing relations with Israel and ...

PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...

The surge in political violence during the Trump years has imperiled not only American lives but also our country’s collective memory. The details of a new atrocity overwrite the old. Even the names ...

When Israel began to normalize relations with some of its neighbors in 2020, as part of the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords, many analysts began to wonder whether the Palestinian cause still mattered to ...

Hamas aimed to derail “normalization’’ talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia by launching the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre and plunging Gaza into war, newly unearthed documents show. Days before the attack ...

Imagine you’re building a dream house. Before laying a single brick, you need an architect who designs every room, pipeline, and connection between spaces. Similarly, in the digital world, a Data ...

Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with ...

Normalization layers have become fundamental components of modern neural networks, significantly improving optimization by stabilizing gradient flow, reducing sensitivity to weight initialization, and ...