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Business and the American election

A business leader on why he’s backing Donald Trump

The Biden administration has played dirty and shown staggering incompetence, argues Joe Lonsdale

The French election

A hard-right government might disrupt France’s relations with Europe

Or it could try to change the EU from within—which would be worse, reckons Jean Pisani-Ferry

British politics

Harriet Harman on how Parliament has changed over four decades

It is more in touch with voters, says the longest-serving female MP—but there is more work to do

Russia and the West

Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is part of his revolution against the West

He is leading Russia into a new phase of strategic confrontation, says Stephen Covington, a longtime NATO adviser

Artificial intelligence

Ray Kurzweil on how AI will transform the physical world

The changes will be particularly profound in energy, manufacturing and medicine, says the futurist

Pharmaceutical innovation

What good are whizzy new drugs if the world can’t afford them?

Bringing gene therapies and obesity drugs to the masses will require financial innovation too, says Steven Pearson

A moderate proposal

Why political centrists must rediscover their passion

They need to be clear about what opposing populism does and doesn’t mean, argues Yair Zivan

Crypto-criminality

Digital finance is a money-launderer’s dream, argues an author

Curbing dirty money will require both governments and techies to be less dogmatic, says Geoff White

Business and Trump

American business should not empower a criminal, says Reid Hoffman

No rational CEO would want a capricious strongman in the White House, argues the entrepreneur

Policing tech giants

A whack-a-mole approach to big tech won’t do, says Europe’s antitrust chief

Margrethe Vestager insists that openness need not come at the expense of security

Putin, the West and the rest

Yuval Noah Harari on how to prevent a new age of imperialism

Non-Western powers have a stake in bringing peace to Ukraine, argues the historian

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members

The firm is a leader in safety as well as capability, insist Bret Taylor and Larry Summers