If our ambition to change the world is defined by these paradigmatic big-tech success stories, it is valueless.
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Unfortunately, Western governments and businesses from Germany to the U.S. are happy to aid and abet the CCP and its proxies as long as they have access to China’s incredibly lucrative economy. Policymakers in the West would be well to wake up to the disturbing reality of Chinese rule before it is too late.
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Western powers must re-evaluate their priorities. Greater focus on the conflicts in central Africa will help provide an insight for policy makers, who in the near future, will want to avoid catastrophe on their own home fronts.
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Global interconnectivity is the source of our sense of culpability for the seemingly inevitable consequences of our actions; but it is characteristically inseparable from the way we live.
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While museums have historically been a tool to educate the public and democratise knowledge, experiences, and the ‘collective memories’ of communities, they are increasingly becoming commercialised sources of finance.
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To emerge successfully from this crisis, Lebanon needs to heed Franklin’s words on confidence, and bring about the necessary measures to wield its high debt levels like Japan.
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We must question whether the institutions or methods in place today truly are adequate, and whether the top-down approach adopted so far by stated in the name of multilateralism really is capable of answering environmental challenges.
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Migration is a problem that must be considered carefully and at length. Failure to do so might mean, without exaggeration, the collapse of Europe.
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While society continues to pump harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, we seem to be more obsessed with talking about the problem than solving it.
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Due to the provision and threat of international arbitration, BITs consistently undermine the ability of developing states to craft policy and regulate foreign investors.
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The anti-hyperinflationary recipe is as clear as the economic science behind it. But in Bolivarian Venezuela it is the ideologues that rule, not the technocrats.
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It is easy to be engrossed in the short-term, fast-paced nature of politics, forgetting that there is a longer context within which these issues fit.
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Mr Trump’s problematic nominee may push the World Bank to take a more objective perspective on its own appointment process.
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The opportunities cannabis creates for UK politics is huge. It opens the flood gates to new sources of tax revenue and a new source of votes from dwindling younger voters.
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Self-driving cars should not be making moral decisions, whether based on our value “preferences” or on a simple utilitarian calculus.
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Imperfection within humans should be championed not treated as a problem begging for a solution.
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