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In February, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered the Taliban unconditional talks to negotiate a political settlement. To support the process, the United...

The latest global climate summit in Poland has generated familiar predictions of doom and disaster from environmental activists. Climate change seems to...

Financial digitalization – the digital revolution’s system-level transformation of the entire financial ecosystem – could catalyze global efforts to...

Since 2010, many measures have been adopted to “crisis-proof” the eurozone. In addition to tighter budgetary rules and the start of a banking union, new...

It has been just five years since China initiated its major land reclamation in the South China Sea, and the country has already shifted the territorial...

After a prolonged honeymoon for the digital economy, the dark side of the Internet, social media, and “Big Tech” has become increasingly apparent in...

The last-minute deal struck at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, offers a glimmer of hope for the future not just of...

So British Prime Minister Theresa May lives to fight another day. The Conservative Party in the House of Commons reaffirmed its confidence in her leadership...

The climate conference in Katowice, Poland, has been billed as the most consequential since the 2015 summit, which produced the Paris climate agreement....

It was not all that long ago – just a few years, as hard as that it is to believe – that Europe appeared to be the part of the world most closely...