“Nature is not settled and permanent, but always in flux. It is not something separate from humans, reliably ready to soothe our woes and restore our spirits. It is rather entangled in the web and…
“Social distancing laws, curfews, and track-and-trace technologies employed in the context of the COVID-19 crisis have been used to harass, detain, or sanction human-rights defenders and other…
“Even as official financial decoupling progresses, US and other financial firms are – with China’s blessing – building asset management, securities, life insurance, fintech, and custody businesses in…
“Like the proverbial man with a hammer who sees every problem as a nail, economists study the world through the lens of incentives, and have developed a rich understanding of how market participants…
“After almost a year of living under the cloud of the pandemic, it is clear that even poor Asian countries managed COVID-19 far better than the United States and Europe. But whether 2020 thus marked…
“If, early on, the Justice Department lawyers charged with selling the administration’s lies had emptied the ranks...the work of defending President Trump’s policies would have been left to the types…
“How does America prevent the next Trump administration if it can’t properly hold the current one to account? This is the task facing the country and the next administration, as Joe Biden prepares to…
“The seeds of modern democracy have yet to be properly shown in the Arab world. The thirst among Arab citizens to choose their own rulers is as strong as it is elsewhere. What they need most is for…
“Thirty years on, the world, according to the Chinese Communist Party, is undergoing a once-in-a-century change that will turn the tide of global power from the West to the East, thus transforming…
“Despite a deterioration in U.S.-China relations, both countries should seize this rare historical moment to develop common norms on AI” (Fu Ying and John Allen, 2020).
