“While the virus has ravaged rich nations, reported death rates in poorer ones remain relatively low. What probing this epidemiological mystery can tell us about global health” (Siddhartha Mukherjee,…
“The world is facing a “pandemic of human rights abuses”, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said. Authoritarian regimes had imposed drastic curbs on rights and freedoms and had used the…
“With an abundance of important and sometimes surprising findings from studies of socioeconomic interventions in recent decades, it is clear that development in the absence of evidence-based…
“With the exception of Taiwan’s advanced digital democracy, including an annual presidential hackathon where millions of citizens participate online in setting the governing agenda, Italy is…
“A clash became inevitable as the Australian government has come closer to passing a bill establishing a “news media bargaining code,” which would require tech companies to pay for news that appears…
“Saving the planet from catastrophic climate change will require not only a dramatic increase in funding for clean-energy research and development. We need innovation in policy just as much as in…
“A decade ago, the consensus was that the digital revolution would give effective voice to millions of previously unheard citizens. Now... the consensus has shifted to anxiety that online…
“Democracy advocates must quickly rally to develop a strategy to foil the Tatmadaw’s. Rather than making rhetorical demands...or demands that the military simply won’t accede to at this point...they…
“Ideally, America would stop besieging weaker nations because it hurts them. Unfortunately, we’re unlikely to stop until it hurts us” (Peter Beinart, 2021).
“When it came to power in pre-modern Europe, Morgenthau and other IR theorists zoomed in on war and conflict...but their attempt to find simple lessons of history is complicated by the fact that the…
