Tag: democracy

• The Root of Haiti’s Misery:Reparations to Enslavers

  May 21, 2022

  Violence. Tragedy. Hunger. Underdevelopment. These bywords have clung to Haiti for more than a century. Kidnappings. Outbreaks. Earthquakes. The president assassinated — this time in his bedroom. How is it… more ›

• Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.

  April 17, 2022

  I’m from a fortunate generation. I can remember a time — about a quarter-century ago — when the world seemed to be coming together. The great Cold War contest between… more ›

• Ukraine Invasion Tests the Ties That Bind Putin and Xi

  February 27, 2022

  The two autocrats have brought their countries closer together than ever. But for China, the costs of Russia’s adventurism could be high. They visited a hockey rink in Beijing and… more ›

• Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley, Donald Trump, and Democracy to Make Billions, Tax-Free

  September 15, 2021

  In an exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography, the disruption-preaching power broker is revealed as just another rich guy desperate to keep his fortune from the IRS. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-15/peter-thiel-gamed-silicon-valley-tech-trump-taxes-and-politics more ›

• Big Tech Thought It Had A Billion Users In The Bag. Now It’s Being Forced To Make Hard Choices To Get Them.

  August 29, 2021

  Long viewed as the world’s biggest market for “the next billion users,” India is fast becoming Silicon Valley’s biggest headache. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/big-tech-thought-it-had-a-billion-users-in-the-bag-now-its more ›

• Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight

  August 21, 2021

  Not all battles can be won with language, arguments, conferences, or diplomacy. About the author: Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a fellow at the SNF Agora… more ›

• The Coup We Are Not Talking About

  January 31, 2021

  In an information civilization, societies are defined by questions of knowledge — how it is distributed, the authority that governs its distribution and the power that protects that authority. Who… more ›

• Making Sense of the Facebook Menace

  January 2, 2021

  Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources of the highest-performing links on… more ›

• Sci-fi surveillance: Europe’s secretive push into biometric technology

  December 10, 2020

  EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. €1.7bn from the programme over the past seven years backed the development of security products for… more ›

• The Clash of Capitalisms

  November 22, 2020

  Capitalism rules the world. With only the most minor exceptions, the entire globe now organizes economic production the same way: labor is voluntary, capital is mostly in private hands, and… more ›