As much as the political world has been turned upside down by the Donald Trump administration’s disruptive nature, it is hard to shake the feeling that in a decade it may end up as a footnote compared to humanity’s collective failure to reckon with artificial intelligence. After all, despite all of the 47th president’s efforts even the phrase ‘super intelligence’ could be relegated to the rhetorical scrapheap as a sideshow of a sideshow. This summer has seen breathtaking bre

Whatever the pretensions of other nations and barring cataclysmic unforeseen disasters, contagions or act of God and man, the predominant topic for 2028 will be the American presidential election. Every four years, the world watches the United States vote for their Chief Executive. The attention is not only about political drama, campaign personalities, or the spectacle of American democracy. It is because U.S. elections often carry consequences far beyond America’s borders.

It’s 2036, Donald Trump has long left office and artificial intelligence is hyper-prevalent. AI systems run hospitals, operate airlines, and battle each other in the courtroom. Productivity has spiked to unprecedented levels, and countless previously unimaginable businesses have scaled at blistering speed, generating immense advances in well-being. New products, cures, and innovations hit the market daily, as science and technology kick into overdrive. And yet the world is gr

"Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits! Waiting.” -- Captain Jean-luc Picard, ‘The Measure of a Man’; Star Trek: The Next Generation Leave it to good old Jean-luc Picard, the impossibly moral captain of the starship USS Enterprise-D to present a philosophical question so eloquently. Those lines, screen written in 1989 by Melinda Snodgrass have become all too prescient in an age when the U.S. is literally betting everything on winning

Vice President JD Vance is one of the most enigmaticfigures in contemporary American politics. He was not the safe choice for the ticket. He arrived on Donald Trump’s presidential ticket with little political experience and plenty of baggage. During his two years in the Senate some senior colleagues found the Ohio freshman’s strident opposition to Republican policy orthodoxy presumptuous at best, sanctimonious at worst. And more than a few Republican lawmakers and donors priv

As artificial intelligence has upended the way in which students read, learn and write, as well as how teachers evaluate and mark, professors and leaders at institutions of higher learning appear to have been largely left to their own devices to figure out how to teach in a profoundly transformed landscape. Many faculty members in the hard sciences and social sciences have pointed to the “productivity boost” AI can offer, and the research potential unlocked by its ability to

As the Republican party approaches the 2026 congressional and 2028 presidential elections it faces a fundamental challenge. Considered to be the party of the Right (broadly classified as those who believe in conservative principles) it won the 2024 election by successfully assembling a coalition capable of competing nationally. Whether it can consolidate that power into a lasting majority is far less certain. The coalition that returned Donald Trump to the White House is begi

The 90th anniversary of Václav Havel's birth (October 5, 1936 – December 18, 2011) will be celebrated throughout 2026, featuring international exhibitions, essay competitions, and archival projects honoring his legacy as a dissident playwright, the last president of Czechoslovakia, and the first president of the Czech Republic. When he passed away, we lost a hero of our times, a friend of freedom, who lived his life with integrity and sent forward ripples of hope into the wor

There have been 24 Canadian prime ministers with 13 of them leading coveted majority governments. Mark Carney just became the 14th, but in a singularly unprecedented way: he built it, like some sort of Lego construct. One year after rescuing Canada’s Liberal Party from electoral disaster, Carney has strengthened his hold on power. A year ago this month, Canadians delivered a result that seemed impossible just a few weeks earlier: another Liberal minority government, this time

In the year after Trump began his second term with an inaugural address assertion that he was “saved by God to make America great again,” one way to measure his influence is to cast the mind forward two years from now. In January 2028, Democrats will be in the thick of their contest not simply to be the presidential nominee but to carry out what they believe is an assignment from history: ending the Trump Moment. It’s been a long journey. Assuming he serves out his full term

Political careers can be made (or unmade) by a single speech. Think Barack Obama’s 2004 Democratic party convention address, Ronald Reagan’s at the Republican gathering forty years earlier, or Winston Churchill’s World War Two exhortations. At their best, such moments of oration can transcend the mundane, the ordinary, the workmanlike and sweep audiences following across all media to emotional places they never thought possible. Then, there are the singular speeches that span

It isn't much of a stretch to regard Mark Carney as a lucky man. He may indeed be one of the luckiest figures in recent political history. When Carney first started kicking the Liberal Party’s tires in late 2024, smart money was still on Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre to win the next election. After all Poilievre had held an expansive double-digit lead in the polls for months, and Ottawa was bracing for the coming Tory revolution. Then came Donald Trump 2.0 with his threa

After the euphoria and relief of Monday’s prisoner exchange and ceasefire, Tuesday has brought some ominous signs for the future of the Gaza peace deal wrought by president Donald Trump. Despite the ringing words of the leaders gathered at Sharm El-Sheikh the shooting didn’t entirely stop. Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Tuesday morning in Gaza’s Shejaiya neighborhood. According to the (IDF) Israel Defense Forces, they had crossed the “yellow line”

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