CAPE TOWN – A growing chorus of Western media outlets, think tanks, and financial commentators is questioning whether Africa’s multilateral...

CAPE TOWN – The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) will be the first to take place in the...

WASHINGTON, DC – OpenAI Co-Founder Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have joined the...

LONDON – Why are citizens of free countries increasingly disenchanted with democracy and tempted to vote for populists and authoritarians?Peruse...

NEW YORK – On September 24, 20 democratic countries from the Global North and South – including Brazil, Chile, Norway,...

WASHINGTON, DC – As was widely expected, the US Federal Reserve has lowered its policy rate by 25 basis points,...

PARIS – In November 1985, during their first summit in Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev slipped away...

CAMBRIDGE – To understand the populist revolt against free trade and other pillars of mainstream economics – a revolt that...

ADDIS ABABA – Next month, heads of state and government, climate scientists, private-sector leaders, civil-society and youth representatives, and global...

LONDON – Much about life under US President Donald Trump’s second administration is mystifying and strange, not least his treatment...