How Mercenary Spyware Threatens Democracy – By Ronald J. Deibert In the summer of 2020, a Rwandan plot to capture exiled opposition leader Paul Rusesabagina drew international headlines. Rusesabagina is best known as the...
Coming on the heels of the pandemic-induced economic slowdown, the inflation crisis of the past two years seemed to catch much of the world by surprise. After three decades in which prices grew slowly...
Why Mobilization Can’t Save Putin’s War In his September 21 speech about the steps he was taking to win his war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin had to explain why he had not...
How Putin Has Used Fear and Disinformation to Neutralize the Russian Public – By Andrei Kolesnikov Situated on the Baltic Coast, the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is closer to Europe than any other part...
Latin America Points to an Explanation—and a Remedy By Paul Hirschfield ————————————————————————————————— Latin America suffers more lethal violence than any other region on earth. As of 2018, 43 of the 50 cities with the...
The End of the Deal Would Leave Only Bad Options to Thwart a Dash for the Bomb Last month, Iran’s nuclear program entered dangerous new territory: Tehran now possesses enough highly enriched uranium for...
If anyone doubts the importance of individual leaders in the shape of world events, surely the war in Ukraine has dispelled them. It is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war and no one else’s, just...
It has been growing unnoticed for some time On march 22nd, in a penal colony 1,000km north-east of the front lines around Kyiv, Alexei Navalny, the jailed leader of Russia’s opposition, was sentenced to...
Over the last three weeks, the Russian economy has been overwhelmed by sanctions. Soon after the Kremlin invaded Ukraine, the West began seizing the assets of the wealthiest individuals close to Russian President Vladimir Putin,...
When Alex accepted a job interview at Accenture, the global professional services giant that performs content moderation for WhatsApp, one of the first questions the recruiter asked him was whether he was comfortable looking at child...
