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.

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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