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Sunday 08/January/2017 14:28 PM

Trump’s unrealpolitik

Some in the United States have praised president-elect Donald Trump for his supposed realism. He will do what is right for America, they argue, without...

Sunday 08/January/2017 14:10 PM

Europe’s new “indispensable nations”

After the shock of the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States in 2016, this will be a decisive...

Saturday 07/January/2017 15:39 PM

The unraveling of Julian Assange

You almost have to feel sorry for Julian Assange. Shut in at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London without access to sunlight, the founder of WikiLeaks is...

Saturday 07/January/2017 15:12 PM

Will health care be disrupted?

Although intelligent machines are increasingly operating complex manufacturing systems and replacing humans on factory floors, they have not made...

Saturday 07/January/2017 14:39 PM

The pitfalls of strongman populism

The year 2016 showed that the durability of liberal democracy can no longer be taken for granted, even in the West. In fact, Harvard University political...

Saturday 07/January/2017 14:31 PM

Free speech and fake news

inShare1 PRINCETON – About a week before the United States presidential election last November, someone posted on Twitter that Hillary...

Saturday 07/January/2017 14:13 PM

Donald Trump’s North Korean family values

With every new US president arriving in Washington, DC, come a handful of counsellors and aides whose personal ties, built over years and forged in election...

Wednesday 04/January/2017 22:20 PM

Trump’s tax plan and the dollar

Now that Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States and Republicans control both houses of Congress, corporate tax reform is coming to...

Wednesday 04/January/2017 22:00 PM

Rethinking labour mobility

The past year will be remembered as a period of revolt against what US President-elect Donald Trump likes to call “globalism.” Populist movements have...