Asha de Vos has done pioneering work on blue whales and joined this week for a conversation about her work in Sri Lanka. The planet “Earth” should...
Our Blue Planet / Asha de Vos
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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...
“When you strike at a king, you must kill him” / Yevgenia Albats
Yevgenia Albats, a journalist in forced exile from Russia, thinks that Prigozhin is a “dead man walking.” Maybe Putin, too. A few days ago the world...
What Does ChatGPT Think? / Rebecca Finlay
Rebecca Finlay delves into the questions surrounding the regulation of AI, its limitless potential, and the challenges faced in controlling its...
Georgia on My Mind / Nino Evgenidze
Russia's invasion of Ukraine seems likely to be one of those seminal events that will divide our future histories: BI and AI. That's obviously true...
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...
What’s Love Got to Do With It? Building a Different Middle East / Gilles Kepel
Over the last several months, there have been a series of extraordinary developments in the Middle East that could have almost as big an impact on...
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...