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

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 ...

Gaurav Dalmia & Chetan Aggarwal suggest how the country can leverage its relative strength to build long-term resilience.

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

Stephen S. Roach thinks Xi Jinping’s hierarchy of ultimatums, with Taiwan now firmly at the top, is sending mixed signals.

Pope Leo XIV has made waves with his first encyclical, in which he describes the development and deployment of new AI tools as a profound threat to human dignity. If anything, he has not gone far ...

Artificial intelligence may be humanity’s greatest opportunity and risk. Where moral leaders have too little influence and states cannot align, actors with system-wide exposure and cross-border ...

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

Policymakers have used the concept of a “just transition” to make a morally and emotionally compelling case for decarbonization. But the experiences of Ethiopia, Pakistan, and South Africa show that ...

Some claim that the threats Europe is facing, especially after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, can create the momentum toward political union that the euro crisis and then the pandemic failed to ...

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