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

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud and Luis Garicano rebut the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman's recent claim that the gap with the US is a statistical mirage.

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...