Opinion

By Ansuman Das & Pranaya Kumar Swain For decades, nuclear energy sat uneasily at the margins of the climate debate: valued for its low emissions, distrusted for its cost and history of accidents. That is changing, as demand rises and countries race to decarbonise power...

By Lee Jong-Wha AI is advancing at a breathtaking pace, and so are fears about its impact on jobs, especially for young people entering the labour market. The tasks generative AI can increasingly perform—writing computer code, summarising documents, analysing data, and handling customer inquiries—are precisely...

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak The demonisation of Marx, Marxism, and its emancipatory logic on an everyday basis is not new. All emancipatory philosophies, philosophers and their radical projects of social, cultural, political, and economic change face similar roadblocks. Despite all propaganda against the emancipatory praxis...

I remember the day PM Modi completed 12 continuous years in office as India’s first elected PM (even surpassing Nehru’s record of 17 years!) a senior politician of the ruling party had visited my house surrounded by his cronies demanding that I give a soundbite...

On 5 September 1906, at Hotel Ples in Duino near Trieste, Ludwig Boltzmann withdrew to his room while his wife, Henriette, and daughter, Elsa, went swimming. When Elsa returned, she was horrified to find that her father had taken his life. No suicide note was...

Anyone old enough to remember the Cold War will also remember an imagined place called the “free world.” It was where Westerners believed they lived, while Eastern Europeans, Russians, and Chinese lived behind barbed wire. The description was partly true, insofar as there was barbed...

Melvin Durai US President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order instructing US federal agencies to refer to Lake Ontario, which sits between America and Canada, as “Lake America.” He did this following a trade dispute with Canada, his way of antagonising Canadians. They should...

Pedro Abramovay & Julia Sakr-Tierney From the moment it was announced, the ceasefire between the United States, Israel, and Iran has been marked by a different form of confrontation: peace on the precipice of war and war on the brink of resolution. The memorandum of...

Sally Wentworth World leaders will gather in New York this month for the 81st United Nations General Assembly under the theme “Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation.” While the rise of AI is bound to be at the top of their agenda, rebuilding trust in technology also...

Nicholas Stern The world must now face up to the fact that the increase in average global temperatures will surpass 1.5° Celsius, the more ambitious of the 2015 Paris climate agreement’s targets. That means devising a plan for managing the consequences—by increasing our focus on...