Daron Acemoglu identifies the flawed and dangerous assumptions about AI that are guiding the technology’s design.

Giulio Boccaletti argues that collective action may provide the common purpose needed to revive the continent’s integration.

Peter G. Kirchschläger assesses Leo XIV’s first encyclical, which addresses the threats to freedom and dignity posed by AI.

Gaurav Dalmia & Chetan Aggarwal suggest how the country can leverage its relative strength to build long-term resilience.

Johan Rockström & Inga Strümke detail the lengths to which the country has gone to transform itself into a global innovation ...

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud and Luis Garicano rebut the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman's recent claim that the gap with the US is a statistical mirage.

Harold James sees UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s loss of political authority as symptomatic of a broader malaise.

Stephen Holmes thinks the deepest fissure opening up in Donald Trump’s political base runs through the US electrical grid.

While 55% of Americans say their financial situation is deteriorating, the wealth of the top 1% is reaching record highs. Against this backdrop, defending billionaires from “oppressive” taxation is ...

US President Donald Trump has turned tariffs into instruments of extortion, pressuring trading partners into investment commitments that advance his political and economic interests. Once political ...

Artificial intelligence may be humanity’s greatest opportunity and risk. Where moral leaders have too little influence and states cannot align, actors with system-wide exposure and cross-border ...

Ruth Khasaya Oniang'o & Peter Kelly consider how to make agricultural research, finance, and extension services work for ...