Threat perception The AI quandary: Governing the unknown
Major advances in AI are raising a raft of concerns about education, work, warfare, and other risks that could destabilise human civilisation long...
Opportunity in waiting: The G20 and G Minor
8 Jan 2023 4:18 AM ISTAmid rising geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty, G20 can play a role in preventing a worse crisis by facilitating the coordination of...
Taking sides: When voters become fans
7 Dec 2022 3:00 PM ISTToday’s deepening political polarisation evokes longstanding assumptions about how electoral politics works. Far from exhibiting hardwired preferences...
Crunched for cash: The muddled politics of US inflation
5 Nov 2022 11:00 AM ISTAmong emerging and developing economies in Asia, year-on-year inflation is at 5.7% in South Korea, 7.4% in India, and 85.5% (not a typo) in Turkey.
Machinery of autocracy: One step ahead of all the king’s games
6 Oct 2022 7:00 PM ISTIn an era of democratic erosion, certain tactics enable authoritarians like Putin to stay in power. By knowing why some tyrants endure while others...
The Federal Reserve is overreacting
3 Sept 2022 11:00 AM ISTIf the US Federal Reserve continues to hike interest rates in large increments, as Fed Chair Jerome Powell recently suggested, economic growth,...
Understanding why Sri Lanka imploded
26 July 2022 8:03 AM ISTWhen Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa family returned to power in 2019, it was riding a wave of support that it sought to sustain with popular but ill-advised...
Worldwide shortages demand global solutions
1 Jun 2022 8:35 AM ISTDespite recent hiccups, the march of globalisation will not end. Policymakers must therefore try to establish minimal global conventions and...