Warnings about the risks posed by artificial intelligence seem to be everywhere nowadays.
“Sustainable Energy for All” is a noble slogan, which triggered an international initiative led by former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
One of the striking changes any rich-world traveler to low-income countries cannot fail to have missed during the past decade or so is the rapid spread of...
There has been a lot of bad news lately on the human rights front.
Israel is running out of excuses to launch a full-scale aggression against Gaza.
The news conference between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had barely ended Monday when an avalanche of condemnation in the strongest possible...
President Donald Trump was doing pretty well in Helsinki, really, laying out a modest but achievable agenda for improving U.S.-Russia relations.
When President Vladimir Putin sat down at the table in Helsinki Monday, he surely had in the back of his mind some intelligence worries that had nothing to do...
For the well-off in both rich and poor countries around the world, lives are enriched by plentiful access to energy that provides light, fresh food and clean...
After enacting a “zero tolerance” policy toward all adult immigrants crossing the border into the U.S., in effect separating parents from their children and...
Since June 23, 2016, when 52 percent of British voters backed exiting the European Union, the “Brexit” debate has been tearing British politics apart.
Since the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, too many policymakers have fallen for the oil and gas industry’s rhetoric about how it can help to...
It’s never a good week for women when Donald Trump is around.
Massive protests in Warsaw have made headlines around the world in recent weeks.
When Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Helsinki on July 16, will they betray the most famous summit associated with the Finnish capital – the 1975...
“The copyright and patent laws we have today look more like intellectual monopoly than intellectual property,” Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles wrote in their...
President Donald Trump’s trip to Europe is being portrayed by both him and his critics as revolutionary.
In 1984, I gathered the most successful musicians of the time to form a “supergroup” called Band Aid to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
On July 3, the municipal council of Tunis elected Souad Abderrahim as the city’s first female mayor.
For years, political leaders such as former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta have warned of the danger of a “cyber Pearl Harbor.”
Since March 30, the Palestinians’ annual commemoration of Land Day, a series of protests collectively dubbed the “Great Return March” have demanded the end of...
As if the war of words between U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of other NATO member countries this week weren’t bad enough for trans-Atlantic...
With a Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit looming, American policy toward Syria may be on the line.
The human toll from violence in the Middle East and North Africa has reached historic proportions.
The most heart-rending media story of the past month featured children crying after being separated from their parents at the border between the United States...
The latest round of tit-for-tat tariffs by the United States and China has intensified the ongoing global debate about whether the world is facing a mere...
Comparing today’s demagogues with Adolf Hitler is almost always unwise.
Each year, 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted around the world.
Sixty-nine years ago, the foreign ministers of 12 countries in North America and Western Europe gathered in Washington, D.C., to sign the North Atlantic...