It is clear that traditional foreign-policy theories are a poor guide to Mr Trump. That offers both risks and opportunities to anyone running to be America’s next president. De redactie van NRC ...

Europe has perfected the art of making cityscapes pleasant. Making them mighty engines of economic dynamism is another matter ...

France may be running out of money, political stability and public patience; it is not running out of influence. A country ...

Tech has also boosted millennials’ cultural comeback. Online platforms encourage people to bathe in the content of their ...

Lawrence Lessig and Yoshua Bengio suggest how to reduce serious risks without abandoning American technological leadership.

Two years ago that approach was flawed but defensible. AI risks were mostly theoretical. Strangling a promising technology with overly onerous rules would have been a mistake. But in late 2026 „let it ...

Elections will sap what little resolve the continent has to make tough decisions.

A government-debt crisis is looming.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much risked by one man for so little. Donald Trump is threatening to cripple ...

The Bolsonaro clan promises to align with Donald Trump, and to attack democratic institutions.

Vladimir Putin is about to subject Ukraine and Europe to a winter of horror. Each week Russia’s president plumbs new depths of cruelty and recklessness, enraged by his failure to break Ukraine in the ...