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’.

In September, the International Criminal Court will conduct a confirmation of charges hearing against warlord Joseph Kony. Leader of the once notorious rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army and the ...

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 ...

Pretty much everyone in Brussels has had it in for Malta’s “Citizenship by Investment programme ever since it launched a decade ago, but it took the European Court of Justice to finally kill it, on ...

According to Oxfam, In its annual survey of inequality, “there’s never been a better time to be a billionaire.” The rise in monopolies, inheritances, and soaring asset prices means global inequality, ...

I visited the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands a couple of years ago, intrigued by its curious bad luck in repeatedly being struck by massive gaming and money laundering scandals, like ...

For the first time since comparable records began, there are fewer companies on the UK’s corporate registry. It’s a sign that anti-fraud reforms are beginning to show the first signs of a provisional ...