geopolitics
After cryptoassets, a wave of central bank digital currencies is set to revolutionize our ideas about what money is and how to manage it.
Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
Many have argued that morals are relative, but Russia’s war crimes reveal the hollowness of that belief. Morality is universal and objective.
There is one House member for every 761,169 people, which isn’t exactly representative.
The future of American jobs isn’t only services and tech.
There’s enough evidence to conclude president Bukele had no idea what he was doing.
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.
All nations have founding myths, but none are quite like Russia’s.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
You might think it’s impossible to run out of wind, but Europe’s “wind drought” proves otherwise. And it’s only going to get worse.
Three reasons why a radically better future is more likely than we think.
For decades, the Communist Party of China has relied on reeducation camps to reform “parasites” and persuade people to support the communist cause.
Democracy is in decline, regardless of how we measure it.
Turning away is a natural response.
Time will tell what the reign of Charles III will look like, but one thing is for sure: the “new Elizabethan age” is long gone.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
“Strategic ambiguity” has long been the West’s strategy on Taiwan.
Argentina’s black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it’s not what crypto proponents expected.
An upstart third party is unlikely to dislodge the status quo in the current system.