Philanthropist is a great word, deriving as it does from an ancient Greek term for “love of humankind”. In theory it could ...

Trump’s Alaska summit was more than diplomatic theater, it exposed how authoritarians weaponize our collective amnesia to reshape narratives and seize control ...

There has been much speculation in financial circles that the White House’s erratic policymaking, random tariffs, and general ...

There are now several books about the 2007-8 financial crisis, the best of which, in my opinion, is Adam Tooze’s ‘Crashed’.

Shanghai, the most populous city in China, has been under lockdown for the past month. As the rest of the world opens its doors and concedes to living with the virus, China is still relentlessly ...

The Kremlin has found the perfect vehicle to spread its message: drama and comedy hits on its own TV channels.

As Silicon Valley’s influence expands, a new belief system is quietly reshaping society. This piece explores how tech elites are redefining power, the risks to human agency, and what it will take to ...

To understand the tempest of Russia’s information wars, is the past prologue? An inside story from the conflict in Ukraine ...

A fascinating new report from Oxfam draws a compelling link between oligarchy, poverty, and the world’s inability to fight climate change. The Oxfam report argues that the “global oligarchy” of the ...

According to Guhl, QAnon’s growth has not been slowed by the comparative effectiveness of the German government’s Covid-19 response. “It is of course quite difficult to predict the future of the QAnon ...