Commentary and Analysis

Jamil Anderlini, Bobby Ghosh, and Susan Glasser join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Innovation, utopian visions, ethics, and profits have shaped the effects technology has on urban life. What has worked, what has failed, and what does it mean for the future?

The summer’s record temperatures have reignited the international farmworker health crisis.

Does France’s laïcité promote or impede religious freedom?

The bloc's popularity signals dissatisfaction with the Western-run global order, Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

The Biden administration's focus will be "firmly fixed on issues of development" at the New Delhi summit, Craig Kafura says.

Could Big Tech's failure to moderate social media be fueling violence and extremism in Kenya and beyond?

History suggests the Republican Party will continue to argue over foreign policy beyond the MAGA era.

Leaning into the binary distinction between autocracies and autocracies doesn't seem to serve US interests, Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

Food systems are just as culpable for the accelerating global planetary health, human health, and poverty crises as they are capable of generating the solutions necessary to fix them.