Big Con and the crisis of capitalism
In recent years, McKinsey & Company has become a household name – but for all the wrong reasons. One of the “Big Three” consulting...
ChatGPT a wrong tool in wrong hands
Microsoft is reportedly delighted with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a natural-language artificial-intelligence program capable of generating text that reads as if a human wrote it. Taking...
Davos Man Has a People Problem
One of the most iconic images of our time shows a polar bear marooned and adrift on an ice floe. Few other images capture...
Second Green Revolution Will Be Digitized
Farming is one of the world’s oldest and most far-reaching endeavors. Meeting the growing food demands of the global population — projected to reach...
The Next Globalization
Is globalization coming back to life? That was the big question at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, where WEF founder Klaus...
Debt Ceiling Is a Red Herring
In his bid to become Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy apparently agreed to a demand, voiced by Representative Ralph Norman...
Fuel of the Future
Green hydrogen is all the rage these days. During November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that...
Sleepwalking Into a Global Trade War
The world is embroiled in a megacrisis comprising the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s war in Ukraine, high inflation, recession fears, and rising debt distress across...
Resisting Fossil-Fuel Nostalgia in Italy
In the face of Europe’s energy crisis, political and economic leaders in Italy, the European Union’s third-largest economy, are confronting two opposing forces. On...
Food Security Is National Security
Despite containing 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land, Africa has been a net food importer for decades. According to the most recent...
