When the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in 1963, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the bloc’s first president, issued a clarion call:...
Invited by Google Europe to attend a brainstorming session in Paris on the decline of truth, the rise of fake news, and ways to counter both, I began my...
A decade on from the 2008 global financial crisis, policymakers constantly assure us that the system is much safer today. The giant banks at the core of the...
Should the United Kingdom go through with its withdrawal from the European Union, one of the most severe unintended consequences will probably be the exodus...
Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they don’t, the European Union will go the way of...
The most frustrating part of my job as a public health scientist is the spread of false information – usually online – that overrides years of empirical...
For the past decade, politics in the Global North has been in a state of high madness owing to excessive fear of government debts and deficits. But two...
Around the world today, the central challenge for achieving inclusive economic prosperity is the creation of sufficient numbers of “good jobs.” Without...
Watching a sophisticated democratic society knowingly walk into a predictable and avoidable national disaster is a rare and alarming experience. Most...
