Opinion

Debating whether nuclear power is green energy or not

Having emerged from the anti-nuclear movement, today’s European Greens never dreamed that once-ostracized nuclear power would regain respectability as a clean alternative.

Can you afford to join the great resignation?

If you choose to quit your job simply because you've had enough and want a career break, you stand to lose far more than just ...

Appeasing Putin on Ukraine may be the only option

Today we live in a new strategic environment. The bipolar Cold War era has been replaced with a new one where U.S. superiority still persists, ...

How to prevent famine in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has faded from global view. And now almost 9 million Afghans are at risk of famine, and a further 14 million are facing acute ...

Technology and innovation are needed to battle climate change

Global emissions reduction is essential. But those efforts won’t do enough to forestall a looming crisis in the polar regions.

Men are getting left behind in the jobs boom

During each recession for the last 40 years, a sizable number of men — more than women — have left the labor force and not ...

We’ll all have some immunity to COVID-19 soon

The end of immunological naivete to COVID-19 in the U.S. should change how we think about the disease and what policies we put in place ...

Why the EU can’t get its act together on Ukraine

Geopolitically, Europe is much less than the sum of its 27 parts as its inaction amid the Ukraine crisis demonstrates.

How to withstand China’s property meltdown

Some of China's richest people were forced by the government to part with prized assets, and they were lucky they did.

China’s espionage plans for the 2022 Winter Olympics

Saving face is a particular paranoia for the Chinese Communist Party; it is what maintains China’s dictatorship — thus the spying.