Opinion

Is the Law of Attraction Real? What is the Real Secret? By: Jennifer Plouff   Everyone is lured in by the thought of easy money, especially today. Personal debt is at an all time high and personal...

The collapse of the Venezuelan health system   When Hugo Chavez became Venezuela's new president in 1998, he promised to provide free health care to all and enshrined this right within Venezuela's new constitution, rewritten in...

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”...

Donald Trump’s Historic Mistake Laurence Tubiana Twitter: @LaurenceTubiana  PARIS – US President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will no longer participate in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the landmark United Nations treaty that many...

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...

From Lima to Havana – a decisive moment for Latin America Remi Piet The recent Summit of the Americas and the transition of power in Cuba are just two events among a number of political shifts...

Defending Academic Freedom in a Populist Age Michael Ignatieff BERLIN – I am the President of Central European University, which is now under attack. CEU is fighting to remain a free institution in Budapest, Hungary’s capital,...

Will Bangkok's street food ban hold? Nic Dunlop   The Thai capital is famous for its street food – but now the authorities are seeking to strictly curtail it. Nic Dunlop wonders why. Bangkok, one of the world’s...

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 Guardian view on vaginal mesh implants: trust data and patients   Editorial The devices have benefited a large number of women – but thousands have suffered serious adverse effects. The numbers tell their own tale. Thousands...