Opinion
The Post-Human Desert
Slavoj Žižek
LJUBLJANA – The Future of Life Institute’s open letter demanding a six-month precautionary pause on artificial-intelligence development has already been signed by thousands...
Getting Drug Development Right
Mariana Mazzucato
LONDON – As political theater, it would be hard to beat US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders’ recent grilling of...
The Price of Solidarity: Palestine, Indonesia and the ‘Human Rights’ Dilemma
RAMZY BAROUD
WHEN I excitedly shared the news on social media that Indonesia had refused to host the Israeli team as part of the Under-20...
Europe Must Tax Brown and Subsidise Green
Gernot Wagner
NEW YORK – After years of global climate-policy leadership, the European Union is looking warily at the United States’ sudden embrace of ambitious...
Tyranny’s Propagandists Are Winning
Maria Ressa and Nishant Lalwani
SEOUL/THE HAGUE – If democracy had its own doomsday clock, it would be at two minutes to midnight. According...