Category: The Conversation

  Possibly without the trappings of the 18th century

With tourists flocking in droves to ‘experience’ heat waves, perhaps it’s time for everyone to take a good hard look at their individual contribution to global warming

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president of Turkey, and Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, are two leaders who have consolidated power using a similar playbook.

Education, contacts and luck can play a considerable role when it comes to building up wealth

Debates have played an important part in the American political process. And when candidates don’t participate, democracy suffers.

Those who seek power for the sake of power are less attracted to high office when more people get a say

  By Steve Schifferes

Artificial intelligence looks like a political campaign manager’s dream because it could tune its persuasion efforts to millions of people individually – but it could be a nightmare

  Historically, a monarch was far more involved in governing than they are today, as many of their duties are now ceremonial.

  and publish lies with almost total impunity

The coronation is a critical moment for King Charles to show that the monarchy can be more efficient and more sensitive to the legacy of British imperialism.

Shame plays an important role in political life – or at least it used to

Beijing is eager for more control over the selection of Tibetan Buddhist leaders like the Dalai Lama

Manhattan grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump, showing he, like all other presidents, is not an imperial king

Today’s immigrants — who mostly come from the Global South — face a system of ever more complex chutes and ladders when it comes to their status in