Daron Acemoglu identifies the flawed and dangerous assumptions about AI that are guiding the technology’s design.

Peter G. Kirchschläger assesses Leo XIV’s first encyclical, which addresses the threats to freedom and dignity posed by AI.

Giulio Boccaletti argues that collective action may provide the common purpose needed to revive the continent’s integration.

Harold James sees UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s loss of political authority as symptomatic of a broader malaise.

Johan Rockström & Inga Strümke detail the lengths to which the country has gone to transform itself into a global innovation ...

Stephen Holmes thinks the deepest fissure opening up in Donald Trump’s political base runs through the US electrical grid.

In recent years, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s focus on religious identity, together with its “purification” of voter rolls, has created a more binary—and potentially volatile—political ...

China’s political and intellectual elites increasingly see the country’s economic transformation as evidence that state-led development has succeeded where liberal capitalism has failed. Yet ...

US President Donald Trump has turned tariffs into instruments of extortion, pressuring trading partners into investment commitments that advance his political and economic interests. Once political ...

Timothy Snyder, the inaugural Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human ...

Ruth Khasaya Oniang'o & Peter Kelly consider how to make agricultural research, finance, and extension services work for ...