Opinion

New Paths for Leadership in International Development Por Mark Suzman SEATTLE – Official development assistance (ODA) helps to save lives, build more stable and safer societies, and project soft power around the world. That is a point...

A Fresh Look at the Afghan War Por Graciana del Castillo NEW YORK – With the Syria crisis dominating headlines, few are paying attention to America’s longest war. In fact, the war in Afghanistan has hardly...

The Macron Method Mark Leonard Twitter: @markhleonard LONDON – Emmanuel Macron’s election to the French presidency provides the European Union with an opportunity to move past the internal conflicts that have hastened its disintegration. Rather than...

Jobs in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Simon Johnson @baselinescene and Jonathan Ruane @jonruane WASHINGTON, DC – The world has no shortage of pressing issues. There are 1.6 billion people living in acute poverty; an estimated 780 million adults are...

Democratizing Artificial Intelligence Maciej Kuziemski Twitter: @kuziemsky OXFORD – Artificial Intelligence is the next technological frontier, and it has the potential to make or break the world order. The AI revolution could pull the “bottom billion”...

A Bridge to Universal Education Gordon Brown Twitter: @OfficeGSBrown LONDON – In a confrontational world where protectionism is on the rise, multilateralism has become an easy target for criticism. But those who doubt its value must have...

Toward a Global Treaty on Plastic Waste Lili Fuhr Twitter: @lilifuhr  and Nils Simon Twitter: @nsim_berlin BERLIN – If there are any geologists in millions of years, they will easily be able to pinpoint the start of the so-called Anthropocene...

Do You Want to Be a Cyborg? Peter Singer Twitter: @PeterSinger and Agata Sagan WARSAW/MELBOURNE – Have you ever wished you could add extra memory to your brain? Elon Musk may be able to help you with that. Musk heads...

The Last Bastion of a Profitable Press Shashi Tharoor Twitter: @shashitharoor NEW DELHI – Around the world, newspapers seem to be facing imminent extinction, as a mass exodus to the Internet causes their circulation to slump and...

Restoring Competition in the Digital Economy Por Dalia Marin MUNICH – The digital economy is carving out new divides between capital and labor, by allowing one firm, or a small number of firms, to capture an...