The Editor of the Financial Times, Roula Khalaf, addressed a letter to its readers welcoming to Democracy 2024 with a series of articles and short films marking an extraordinary year ahead. “More than half the global population is potentially voting in elections this year. Some …
Ian Bremmer, the president and founder of the Eurasia Group, joins Professor Scott Galloway to discuss what he believes are the year’s top geopolitical risks. These include the United States vs. itself, the Middle East on the brink, and the war in Ukraine on a …
We begin the year hoping the world will recompose, but it seems unlikely. There is no doubt that many of the problems would end if they put a stop to Iran, a country that loves to create problems by using third parties and financing atrocities. …
Wars, polarization, and uncertainty reign in the immediate future. None of the forecasts at the beginning of the year* alerted us to the outcomes we experienced. The widely anticipated recession didn’t happen; the U.S. economy is growing with low unemployment and decreasing inflation. Growth across …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce While in Gaza, the death toll exceeds 20,000, in Mexico, the death toll in 2023 is approaching 30,000. President Lopez Obrador has diplomatically called for a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas group in Gaza. But when he refers to insecurity in …
Antonio Navalón In the blink of an eye – which for some seemed too little for what was intended to be achieved, and for others, the wait seemed eternal – we have reached the last year of the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador …
Jamie Dimon’s leadership of JPMorgan Chase has often brought a sense of stability to roiling financial markets. But when he looks at the conflicts in Gaza ( which he considers the highest and most important thing for the Western world), Ukraine, and elsewhere, combined with inflation and rising interest rates at home, he sees ominous …
Antonio Navalón Amid so many things happening around the world, one of the new facts that characterize the times we live in is how the rich are, how they behave, what their curiosities and interests are, and, among them, the richest of all: Elon Musk. …
Today, I begin my letter with an issue that has been worrying me for some time, which seems even more serious today. The new generation of young people known as Generation Z, the next generation of millennials, seems not to find its way and is …
John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at the University of Chicago. He is one of the world’s most influential and controversial thinkers on the topics of war and power. OUTLINE: 1:29 – Power 24:43 – Hitler 42:09 – Russia and Ukraine 1:38:22 – Israel …