As extremists exploit democracy’s freedoms, should constitutions strike back—or always leave judgment to the ballot box?
Outsourcing our future to for-profit AI
The recent AI Nobel Prize win and California’s vetoed AI safety bill highlight the growing trend of placing our future in the hands of private corporations, with little public accountability.
American business will regret writing off democracy
By endorsing Donald Trump’s run for the US presidency, business leaders are embracing a man with only contempt for the law.
Will Boeing crash ‘shareholder value’?
Boeing’s self-inflicted woes hold broader lessons for contemporary corporate governance.
How finance became the problem
Finance has become the driving force behind most decision-making. We seem to have unlearned politics.
How the public loses out when politicians cash in
Gerhard Schröder has clearly breached the trust of the German people.
From shock therapy to Putin’s war
Putin is alone responsible for the war in Ukraine but prominent westerners played a key role in Russia’s post-Soviet trajectory.
The Pandora Papers and the threat to democracy
In demonstrating how some of the world’s most powerful people hide their wealth, the Pandora Papers have exposed the details of a global system.
The myth of green capitalism
Rallying behind market-based measures to address climate change allows the owners of capital yet another way to avoid a reckoning.
Green markets won’t save us
Markets are an unreliable guide for navigating a problem as large and complex as climate change.
The debt predators
The financial system has turned credit intermediation into a debt mint.
Limited liability is causing unlimited harm
The purpose of limited-liability protection was to encourage investment in corporations, yet it has evolved into a source of systemic market failure.
Facebook’s Libra must be stopped
After years of disregarding privacy, exploiting user data and failing to control its platform, Facebook has unveiled a cryptocurrency and payment system that could take down the entire global economy.