While much of the developed world is properly worried about myriad privacy outrages at the hands of Big Tech and demanding - and securing - for individuals a...
In December 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump declared victory over Daesh (ISIS), tweeting that “ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including...
In today’s world, access to global networks is a critical source of power, but the resulting interdependence can also generate vulnerability. The power flows...
Governments built the current systems and institutions of international cooperation to address 19th- and 20th-century problems. But in today’s complex and...
One thing missing from the recent U.S. midterm election campaigns was a focus on foreign policy. While much was made of the migrant caravan making its way...
A record number of American women are running for elected office in 2018, many of them motivated by outrage over U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies and...
WASHINGTON: Technological developments in recent years have highlighted not only the benefits of big data, but also the need to come to terms with the dangers...
Ironic. That is how Sultan Abdul Hamidullah Atar described the planned rehabilitation of Marawi, the capital of Lanao del Sur province on the Philippine...
In December 2014, the cover of Time magazine’s Person of the Year issue featured Salome Karwah, a nursing assistant who not only survived the Ebola epidemic...
Cyril Ramaphosa’s victory in December’s contest to lead South Africa’s ruling African National Congress was a resounding repudiation of President Jacob Zuma....
Hardly a day goes by without another article, conference or research initiative devoted to the future of work. The robots are coming, or they’re not coming as...
The image of Wuilly Arteaga crying after Venezuelan security forces destroyed his violin has been seen by millions of people around the world. The 23-year-old...
The Dutch election was the first bright spot in a while for people in Europe and the United States who are deeply worried that the backlash against...
Before America and the world settle in firmly to the new Donald Trump-based reality, let’s take a little trip down the road not taken. Suppose we had woken up...
The Chilcot report was finally released this month, seven years after it was commissioned by the British government to “identify lessons” from the...
Armenia and Turkey have long been at odds. Divided over a tragic past, the neighboring countries do not have diplomatic ties and their border remains...
The theme of this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos was “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The subtitle should have been: “Of Robots and...
Countries across Europe and states across the United States are debating the dangers of admitting more refugees from Syria or, indeed, any majority Muslim...
In the United States, the revolution for equality between men and women is stuck halfway. Over the past 50 years, women’s roles have changed dramatically,...
A recent front-page photo in the New York Times of a boatload of Syrian refugees drifting on the Mediterranean Sea beneath an enormous setting sun could not...
The negotiations leading up to the recent tentative deal on Greece’s debt brought into relief two competing visions of the European Union: the flexible,...
China’s success in establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has been regarded as a diplomatic fiasco for the United States. After discouraging...
In his first inaugural address, U.S. President Barack Obama offered an invitation to the world’s most closed countries. “We will extend a hand,” he said, “if...
Decades of efforts to reduce the death toll from drunk driving in the United States produced the mantra, “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” After...
If not for U.S. President Barack Obama’s bold, unexpected diplomatic breakthrough with Cuba, the last weeks of 2014 would have been relentlessly unkind to...