Opinion

Tuesday 13/February/2018 14:57 PM

Populism’s second wind

“Europe has the wind in its sails,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker proclaimed in his State of the Union address last September. But...

Tuesday 13/February/2018 14:39 PM

Tackling science’s gender-parity problem

Two years ago, the United Nations designated February 11 the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It is worth reflecting on female scholars’...

Monday 12/February/2018 15:21 PM

Pay-or-play capitalism

When I led the British government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) from 2014 to 2016, we suggested various ways to fund a market-entry reward...

Monday 12/February/2018 14:49 PM

US foreign policy and the missing left

Consider the disaster of American foreign policy under President Donald Trump. While the president spent his first year in office trading insults with the...

Monday 12/February/2018 14:15 PM

The World Bank needs to return to its mission

The World Bank declares that its mission is to end extreme poverty within a generation and to boost shared prosperity. These goals are universally agreed as...