The Big Think

For 30 years, right-wing parties and nativist leaders have whittled away refugees’ rights. In the wake of a global pandemic, seeking asylum will be nearly impossible unless the international community revises and modernizes its approach to people fleeing war.

Immunization to COVID-19 is supposed to solve our problems—but it's starting to trigger even bigger ones.

The region has always had problems—but it’s now almost past the point of recovery.

Ulrich Beck was a prophet of uncertainty—and the most important intellectual for the pandemic and its aftermath.

And a lot is riding on whether Washington can figure out which strategy Beijing has chosen.

Donald Trump has torn up a foundation of U.S. foreign policy, and is causing irreparable damage to the Middle East—and world order—in the process.

Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in the White House?

The U.S.-China relationship started veering wildly off track 15 years ago—but Washington stumbled badly in its response.

Searching for the next holy grail of foreign policy is stopping the United States from solving the world’s most pressing problems.

The only way to win the next superpower showdown is to understand what exactly caused it.