In an opinion poll of 19 mostly Western democracies conducted last year, almost half of respondents said they were dissatisfied with how democracy...
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Is Uber Really More Valuable than the Planet?
The summer of 2023 might be remembered as the year that people almost everywhere finally began to understand what global warming means: unrelenting...
The Trials of Donald Trump
Imagine a new blockbuster movie in which a former American president, running for re-election, is criminally indicted not once or twice, but four...
Russia: Dead Man Walking?
At the end of June the world witnessed the extraordinary sight of the paramilitary Russian Wagner Group literally marching on Moscow, allegedly not...
Can AI Be Regulated?
Rebecca Finlay, CEO of the Partnership for AI, is on a mission to find a positive answer. In a recent podcast, she emphasized that AI isn't...
Welcome to the Post-Kissinger Middle East
In the 1970’s Henry Kissinger argued that the goal of America’s Middle Eastern policy was to persuade the Arabs that the road to peace ran through...
India’s Back to the Future Moment?
India has always been difficult for non-Indians to understand, maybe for many Indians as well. Sheer size and diversity make governance, never mind...
Masters Of War
Sudan is at war with itself. Since the 2019 uprising that booted Omar al-Bashir from office after thirty years, the country has experienced more...
Now for Something Completely Different
We live in a bipolar world: United States and Europe on one side; China and Russia on the other. And everyone else is expected to choose one or the...