The conference organisers, the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency, said “all speakers are welcome to share their personal viewpoints about the role of technology in society” but it did ...

No one becomes an anti-corruption activist to make money, least of all in Ukraine. When I first met the co-founders of the ...

As Silicon Valley’s influence expands, a new belief system is quietly reshaping society. This piece explores how tech elites ...

I’m sure I’m not the only person who secretly likes a one-star review. It’s awful to get one yourself (and I have, several ...

I am a regular listener to Ezra Klein’s podcast, and I’m a fan. There should be more podcasts that treat serious issues seriously, but there’s something he said back in April when talking about the ...

Recent events in the South Caucasus show how the authoritarian playbook is exported and adapted to suit local contexts. From Armenia’s clergy allegedly plotting coups, to Azerbaijan raiding Russian ...

A panorama of destruction in the old city of Mosul. The conversation happened at a moment when the Middle East was literally on the brink of a wider war. The old fault lines – sectarian, geopolitical, ...

When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to become the Switzerland of Central Asia that the Swiss ambassador once joked ...

Why Did We Write This Story? Because the world’s rules are being rewritten in real time. As the US flexes its military muscle and Moscow pivots from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia, we’re watching ...