A massive expansion of AI capabilities is a serious threat to those in power – including those who develop, own, and control AI. It points to nothing less than the end of capitalism as we know it.

It seems that the internationalisation of the renminbi is well underway.

In addition to boasting about his infallibility, Trump has already embraced tried and true staples of fascist rhetoric.

While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.

The BJP’s charge against Gandhi is a serious one.

Unprecedentedly powerful predictive tools will strengthen authoritarian regimes’ surveillance capacity.

We desperately need free markets, but that means, above all, markets that are free from the stranglehold of monopoly and monopsony.

Russia is special, but mainly in the sense that it is uniquely capable of destroying, in a matter of days, what took centuries to build.

Those who would claim neutrality forfeit their standing to complain about the horrors of colonisation anywhere.

Narendra Modi’s government has long been overly sensitive to world opinion

The extraordinary success of women’s self-help groups in India represents one of the best-case outcomes.

Shashi Tharoor, a former UN under-secretary-general and former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, and an MP for the Indian National Congress, discusses his most recent book, India’s foreign policy, and India’s majoritarian turn in an interview with Project Syndicate. 

One cannot deny the fact that there are too many overconfident experts making too many predictions about too many issues too quickly these days. A basic economic principle is useful here: the 24-hour news cycle has created a huge need for expert opinion, and the market has simply created the supply to meet the growing demand.

Russia’s reversion to warlordism is fuelled by a religious fundamentalism.

Anyone with any faith in the market economy knew that the supply issues would be resolved eventually; but no one could possibly know when.

Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.

The uncanny similarity between Brazil’s failed insurrection and the attack on the US Capitol highlights the many parallels between Bolsonaro and Trump.

Given India’s strategic importance, why has the White House left the ambassador position vacant for two years?

Where academics and strategists have failed, perhaps the denizens of Sesame Street might succeed

The extremists have won in the race for the US Speaker of the House