Left-wing forces have a blind spot when it comes to dealing with Islamic fundamentalism. We shy away from the debate, gloss over or downplay problems that actually exist. And when we do engage, we do ...

The defining question of our time is no longer whether AI will transform our world. It already has. What the world needs now is a moral compass for the technology, which is why I introduced the ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Founder of Laureates and Leaders for Children, Honorary President of the Global March Against Child Labor, as well as the Founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save ...

The world needs new tax rules. The UN might soon decide whether multinationals and the super-rich will pay their fair share ...

Anyone who describes war primarily as a source of courage, creativity and social renewal runs the risk of no longer seeing it ...

Lassi Murto is a Finnish international development professional, disability-rights advocate and civil society specialist. As Programme and Thematic Advisor at the Abilis Foundation, he works with ...

picture alliance / Hans Lucas | Denis Meyer Grassroots civil society performs work that is difficult to measure because it often prevents invisibility rather than producing dramatic events. This is ...

The rupture of the world order is going much better than expected. At first there was rage at America’s betrayal, when President Trump called for the annexation of Canada, threatened Greenland, ...

If it is true that art imitates life, works of imagination can reflect underlying truths about our own experience. The English artist David Hockney, who died last month, certainly understood that. In ...

Since his election victory, the new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has repeatedly been asked the same question at international press conferences: what advice would he give his French, German ...

The times when a communal creative introspection swept across the US have long gone — to the detriment of us all On the heels of America’s 250th anniversary, I felt the curious need to resist my usual ...

In 2020, Elon Musk posted a tweet asking people to ‘Take the red pill.’ Two years later, he bought Twitter, the platform now known as X. What followed was one of the most dramatic restructurings in ...