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Sometime this summer, residents of Cape Town, South Africa, are expecting ‘Day Zero’ – the day when almost all the taps in the city will run dry. On that day, its 4 million…
Plastics in the world’s oceans are set to treble in the next ten years, according to a new UK government report. They are also contributing to a rubbish…
We are often told that there is no place for politics in objective research. The scientific tradition has built rigorous methodologies to get rid of bias, and presents itself as…
Populists’ aversion to institutional restraints extends to the economy, where they oppose obstacles placed in their way by autonomous regulatory agencies, independent central…
The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica’s alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK-based academic and his company…
It’s time to build a new worldview around a deeper sense of connectedness.
What do all these ideas have in common—a tax on carbon, big investments in renewable energy, a livable…
Olu Fasan analyses why economic partnership agreements could be the key to helping African countries achieve their goal of industrialisation.
For nearly three decades, Europe’s…
Antoine Martin explores the increasingly complex relationships between cryptocurrencies and states.
Looking at cryptocurrency and blockchain news this week got me thinking…
Dan Banik argues that the development community must embrace the complexity of measuring success in the difficult places they work.
The history of international…
Erik Brattberg argues that Trump’s trade policies threaten to undermine America’s global leadership role.
By imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, President Donald…
When Zhou Xiaochuan hands over the reins of the People’s Bank of China after 15 years in control, his successor will take charge of a central bank with unprecedented global…
Dan Lomas provides background to clandestine security services’ assassination attempts on foreign soil.
Whitehall sources had been claiming that the suspected…
The worldview that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights promotes is the polar opposite of the one actually gaining traction today, writes Francesca Klug. She argues that…
Michael Johnson gets us up to speed on President Trump's latest policy.
President Donald Trump has signed an order for special tariffs of 25% on imports into the United States of…
Nayef Al-Rodhan explores the evolving space security race.
Space…