• January 19 2025
  US foreign policy

  America’s new ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy could cause lasting damage

  The precedent set by China’s aggressive promotion of its interests is not a promising one

  
• August 28 2024
  Demographics and population

  For business, DEI should be an economic priority

  Regardless of your political stripe, adapting to demographic change is essential

  
• August 4 2024
  US politics & policy

  What might a Harris foreign policy look like?

  From personal experience she grasps how domestic political divisions can undermine American power abroad

  
• June 25 2024
  EU foreign policy

  Europe boldly redefines security for a new age of threats

  Focusing on the environment and technology can lay the ground for handling non-military as well as military challenges

  
• July 24 2023
  Artificial intelligence

  The rise of AI forces us to reinterpret our human intelligence

  We will need better guides to teach us how to navigate a world built on the patterns we didn’t know we had created

  
• January 28 2023
  Social affairs

  ‘Having it all’ was always a poor measure of success

  Jacinda Ardern’s frank resignation is as groundbreaking as her premiership, where she encouraged new metrics

  
• October 20 2022
  US foreign policy

  America must be serious about cross-border challenges

  The new National Security Strategy is right to insist issues like climate change are as important as geopolitical threats

  
• May 5 2022
  War in Ukraine

  Expanding Nato will deepen east-west fissure

  Admitting Finland and Sweden would only broaden the divide between Russia and its neighbours

  
• December 16 2021
  US politics & policy

  To better defend democracy, the US must admit to its own imperfection

  That recognition should lie at the core of any American effort to champion democratic principles abroad

  
• September 19 2021
  US foreign policy

  At the UN, Biden should champion a new people-centred global order

  It is time to rethink national security and the purpose of foreign policy

  
• January 22 2021
  US foreign policy

  Joe Biden’s US must act like a new leader, not a returning one

  The world has changed while America was distracted under Donald Trump

  
• November 18 2020
  US foreign policy

  There is a way to keep America globally engaged

  Many rightly fear that Joe Biden’s more internationalist US will prove only a passing phase

  
• October 19 2020
  US presidential election 2020

  The three pillars of US foreign policy under Biden

  There will be radical change from Trump’s approach, but more in style than in substance

  
• January 6 2020
  Social affairs

  Giving back after getting a lot will not be enough in 2020

  We should stop focusing on ourselves and aim for something larger

  
• November 7 2019
  Gender politics

  How older women are trying to change the world

  ‘Phase three’ of life can also be phase free, a time to take risks and upset apple carts

  
• September 18 2019
  United Nations

  A new kind of multilateralism is on the horizon

  Digital space does not recognise the elaborate distinctions of protocol that governments have built

  
• July 17 2019
  US foreign policy

  Some Democrats are going global in foreign policy

  Candidates for the presidential nomination are emphasising planetary over geopolitical threats

  
• June 3 2019
  Nancy Pelosi

  It is dangerous to underestimate Nancy Pelosi   

  The House Speaker is skilfully negotiating Democratic tensions over impeachment  

  
• April 25 2019
  US politics & policy

  Political good girls are fighting a losing battle

  Female candidates still follow rules that their male competitors gleefully ignore

  
• March 3 2019
  US politics & policy

  Today’s centrist candidates are not a cross-section of America

  Those who espouse a new political middle ground are overwhelmingly affluent white men

  
• January 8 2019
  US foreign policy

  Democrats draw foreign policy battle lines

  Moderates and progressives disagree on the nature and scope of American leadership

  
• November 19 2018
  US politics & policy

  US midterms show a shift to a positive populism

  Approval of voting reform initiatives springs from the changing nature of local power

  
• October 23 2018
  Gender politics

  American men should find the courage to reject machismo

  What matters is the strength to stand up to peer pressure and forge a path of equality

  
• September 17 2018
  US politics & policy

  Transform UN entities from hierarchies into hubs

  The organisation must focus more on people and emphasise its pledge for human rights

  
• July 22 2018
  Global Economy

  Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin want to create a new world order

  We should take their vision of unfettered state sovereignty seriously