Globalization has brought great benefits but also wrought much damage. So has technology. In particular, they have caused rising inequality that is fueling populism, which threatens free-market capitalism.
The historical teachings of Condoleezza Rice are as pertinent as they were in the halcyon days of the Bush administration.
Is Vladimir Putin the face of the future or the final fasp of the past? Will dirty energy and realpolitik come roaring back or will the world adopt a Global Green Deal to combat the climate crisis in a rapidly heating planet?
In his public speaking, Joe Biden has been functioning on autopilot for some time. His rhetorical tics have allowed him to craft his own inimitable version of hyperreality, in which exaggeration has become his core value.
We sometimes forget that “casus belli” in Latin is both a singular and a plural noun, and it should always be treated as such. A close look at history reveals that there are no simple causes for the Russia-Ukraine war and pinning blame on the villain-like figure of Vladimir Putin or historic Russian imperialism is intellectually sloppy and politically propagandist.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg may be guilty of heresy as Boris Johnson leads the new inquisition.
Evaluating the effects of the first Lend-Lease law passed 82 years ago can help to make sense of the 2022 version.
A Republican politician known as a moderate revives the McCarthyite mindset and the nuclear threat.
