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Tackling climate change numbers among the most pressing issues for governments worldwide. But after the United Nations struggled to even find a host for its upcoming international…
What the fall of the Wall and the last thirty years should have taught us is that without freedom there is no equality, and without equality freedom is fragile and vulnerable.…
I recently sat down with inequality guru Branko Milanovic to discuss his path-breaking work on inequality, and his new book, Capitalism Alone (review follows tomorrow). Here are a…
Tena Prelec reports on an initiative to expose how Western actors – such as bankers, accountants, lawyers, estate agents, and PR specialists – facilitate…
The Netherlands has recently joined a handful of other Western countries in passing new laws with the hope of stifling terrorist activity and threats. Thea Hilhorst and Isabelle…
Protests convulse global politics, but it’s what happens when they die down that can really make a difference.
The last half-year has seen a startling cluster of protests around…
Brooks Marmon explores the propaganda struggles and diplomatic debates emanating from Western sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Africa fully supports the post-Mugabe regime of President…
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Dennis Dijkzeul reflect on some of the new directions in humanitarian governance and the ambiguity of some of the principal techniques.
According…
There’s little that the left and the right agree on these days. But surely one thing is beyond question: that national governments must protect citizens from the gravest threats…
Europe is already behind the US and China in Internet technologies — and risks falling behind in AI
Whoever leads in this sphere [AI] will become the ruler of the world” said…