Generative AI could Make or Break Democracy
Predicting how generative artificial intelligence might affect democracy is a formidable challenge, given that its potential applications are still largely unknown – and seem...
Which Is the Real Europe?
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the European Union. When the Maastricht Treaty took effect in 1993, Europeans embarked on a historically unique...
Governing the Right to Food
When I was a child, my father, who had witnessed the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, told me how common ground...
Financing Childhood Growth
In 2020, chronic undernutrition stunted the growth of nearly a quarter of the world’s children under five years old. Being too short for one’s...
Throwing Good Money After Good
Innovation can have a profound effect on our lives. Thanks to technological advances that reduced the price of solar energy by nearly 90 percent...
Comparing Pain Across Species
In recent weeks, I have been touring the United States and the United Kingdom, promoting Animal Liberation Now, my new book on the ways...
Poverty of AI Pessimism
Hardly a week goes by without various pioneers in artificial intelligence issuing dire warnings about the technology that they introduced to the world. I...
Give Americans a Debt Brake
Since 1960, the United States has raised its debt ceiling 78 times – soon to be 79, if Congress approves the latest last-minute deal....
BRICS Threat to the Dollar?
Russia’s war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s recent meeting in Moscow, and China’s apparent success in brokering a diplomatic rapprochement between Iran...
Journalists as Activists
Should journalists say and write what they think? Recent controversies have given new urgency to old questions about journalists’ professional ethics and political role...
