Worried about social media helping to create popular movements, China runs an elaborate system of censorship and manipulation.

As there are no “good” solutions to the Brexit conundrum, it’s time to focus on the practicality of the least “bad” one.

Under Xi Jinping, will China opt for a “new totalitarianism,” the current “hard authoritarianism,” turn back to a sort of “soft authoritarianism” or move toward a “semi-democracy”?

Technology might help countries like India with government services, but it’s no silver bullet for the business of governance.

Passionate, self-forgetting work is the secret of happiness as well as of making a life.

The Las Vegas massacre has exposed that the idea of the existence of an American “society” is increasingly becoming pure fiction.

Millions of tons of plastics end up in landfills and oceans each year.

Plastics have been both a gift and a curse from an environmental standpoint

China now imports a majority of the world’s annual waste plastic.

Is a world of approximately equal country incomes really possible to envisage any time soon?