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Europe’s other flashpoint
NATO must tackle instability in the Balkans, says an ex-head
Russia and China are up to old tricks in the region, argue George Robertson and Andi Hoxhaj
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