The real problem in today’s stock markets is not the omnipresence of high-frequency traders but the growing fragmentation of the markets, which hurts the 99 percent. | Continue reading
The Indian government's brute majoritarianism in Kashmir reveals a spreading rot in the country's democratic institutions | Continue reading
Prime-age men’s non-employment in the United States has been creeping upward for decades—from a low of four percent in the 1950s to almost 14 percent today. | Continue reading
As Washington steps back, Beijing will take charge. | Continue reading
Trump’s trade war ignores the real threat from Beijing. | Continue reading
Zachary Karabell reviews two new books on population decline, arguing that the world is headed toward a population bust that could destroy capitalism as we know it. | Continue reading
Zachary Karabell reviews two new books on population decline, arguing that the world is headed toward a population bust that could destroy capitalism as we know it. | Continue reading
Despite fashioning himself as a tsar, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s deep insecurity defines his political decisions. | Continue reading
In many ways, the populist surge that brought Donald Trump to office represents a rejection of experts and all they represent. Americans today see ignorance as a virtue. Here’s why they’re very, very wrong. | Continue reading
AI is making fake news look real. | Continue reading
Simone Weil is more relevant than ever, 70 years on. | Continue reading
Xi still believes he has the upper hand. | Continue reading
To craft a fair and sustainable global economy, policymakers should look to the flexible principles of Bretton Woods, yet today's hyperglobalization is closer in spirit to the historically more distant and more intrusive gold standard. | Continue reading
On the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen crisis, previously unpublished documents shed new light on a moment that came to define modern China. | Continue reading
Russian social media meddling in the 2016 U.S. election should serve as a wake-up call: U.S. intelligence community must shift its focus from counterterrorism to a suite of new technological threats, from AI to deepfakes and disinformation warfare. | Continue reading
Richard Holbrooke helped normalize U.S. relations with China; served as U.S. ambassador to a newly reunified Germany and then to the United Nations; and, most famously, negotiated the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. But he began and ended his career stru … | Continue reading
Historians’ failure to tell a common American national story has ceded the field to charlatans offering their own twisted versions—and allowed a dangerous strain of American nationalism to take hold. | Continue reading
Brazil's new foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, is a right-wing intellectual firebrand with some odd ideas and bold plans. | Continue reading
Thanks to the rise of “deepfakes”—highly realistic and difficult-to-detect digital manipulations of audio or video—it is becoming easier than ever to portray someone saying or doing something he or she never said or did, with potentially disastrous consequences for politics. | Continue reading
China is trying to displace, rather than replace, the United States as a great power. | Continue reading
China is not the hegemon-in-waiting that many consider it to be. | Continue reading
The best books we reviewed in 2018. | Continue reading
Just because an order is in irreversible decline does not mean that chaos or calamity is inevitable. But if the deterioration is managed poorly, catastrophe could well follow. | Continue reading
The popularity of Finland's military is a product of its willingness to listen to its soldiers. | Continue reading
To compensate the losers from globalization, the United States must build a lifelong ladder of opportunity that goes from early childhood education to employment-based training throughout an individual’s working life. | Continue reading
Far from expanding Chinese soft power, the Belt and Road Initiative appears to be achieving the opposite. | Continue reading
Nuclear strategy hawks in Washington tend to think that Russia's nuclear arsenal is designed for a future military offensive, but Moscow's key nuclear strategy old-fashioned deterrence. | Continue reading
After decades of reliance upon foreign technology, Xi’s China aspires not only to catch up with the West’s technological development but to surpass it | Continue reading
The true story of 2008 forces a question about the future of financial globalization: How will a multipolar world that has moved beyond the transatlantic structures of the last century cope with the next crisis? | Continue reading
Abiy has made a good start. But there is a long way to go. | Continue reading
Democratic societies are fracturing into segments based on ever-narrower identities, threatening the possibility of deliberation and collective action by society as a whole. Unless liberal democracies can work their way back to more universal understandings of human dignity, they … | Continue reading
Democratic societies are fracturing into segments based on ever-narrower identities, threatening the possibility of deliberation and collective action by society as a whole. Unless liberal democracies can work their way back to more universal understandings of human dignity, they … | Continue reading
China is set to remake cyberspace in its own image. That will make the Internet less open and allow Beijing to reap vast economic, diplomatic, and security benefits that once flowed to Washington. | Continue reading
The U.S government needs to play a more assertive role in protecting the public from digital threats, just as it protects it from conventional ones. | Continue reading
Humans are tribal animals, and a recurring failure to grasp this truth has contributed to some of the worst debacles of U.S. foreign policy in the past 50 years. | Continue reading
The debate over the effects of artificial intelligence has been dominated by two themes. One is the fear of a singularity, an event in which an AI exceeds human intelligence and escapes human control, with possibly disastrous consequences. The other is the worry that a new indust … | Continue reading
For decades, Europe's leading innovators, visionary entrepreneurs, and renowned academics have crossed the Atlantic in search of better opportunities. Yet talented individuals who have left Europe are not necessarily entirely lost. | Continue reading
Globalization has not given way to deglobalization; it has simply entered a different phase. | Continue reading
Over the next decade, gene editing could help humanity overcome some of the biggest and most persistent challenges in global health and development. It is vital that scientists, subject to safety and ethics guidelines, be encouraged to continue taking advantage of such promising … | Continue reading
The possibility of rewriting the genome of an organism, or even of an entire species, has long been the stuff of science fiction. But with the development of CRISPR (which stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”), a method for editing DNA far more p … | Continue reading