Katharina Pistor recounts how the annual Davos gathering has served as a platform for anti-democratic deal-making.

Mordecai Kurz considers how the root causes of the current populist-authoritarian moment can best be addressed.

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg anticipates a need for more, not less, investment in teaching young people how to think.

Recognizing that the old growth model has run its course, China’s leaders have embraced a measured economic strategy, focused on “high-quality development,” stability, and risk management. But they ...

Stephen Holmes says it should be obvious by now that what motivates the US president is the visceral experience of domination ...

Far from warning Donald Trump against undermining foreign investors’ confidence in the US, his Treasury secretary is backing the president and downplaying the risks of a bond selloff. But markets are ...

Pegah Banihashemi thinks the regime’s latest violent crackdown on protesters could deprive it of its last source of ...

Jacques Attali cautions against declaring democracy moribund, as no other system can sustainably govern free individuals.

Yi Fuxian explains why declining fertility presents Chinese authorities with a uniquely difficult challenge.

Despite growing pressure on marine ecosystems, ocean-health projects often remain underdeveloped because funding, policy, and ...

Carl Bildt calls for institutionalizing a “coalition of the willing” led by France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Ricardo Hausmann draws parallels between US efforts to seize Venezuelan oil and 19th-century resource colonialism.