Based on the idea that music possesses a spiritual power that can elevate humanity toward a more optimistic, creative, innovative, and hopeful life, the Global Enlightenment Music Club (GEMC) was created as a stage for musicians from all over the world to contribute...
In this May, the White House announced New Actions to Promote Responsible AI Innovation, while G-7 Summit leaders called for international standards on AI. Following up these efforts, leaders of OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever, wrote: “Governance...
In a new show of muscle, China is closing part of the South China Sea for military exercises this week. The announcement comes after an international tribunal ruled against Beijing’s claim to own virtually the entire sea. An area southeast of China Hainan...
In a plea that's unlikely to be respected by Turkey's increasingly dictatorial president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, European politicians and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have called on Turkey to respect the rule of law amid a purge of state institutions in...
The United Kingdom's new prime minister, Theresa May, pushed for U.K. unity in Edinburgh on July 15 on her first visit as Britain's premier. While 51 percent of voters in the U.K. as a whole backed its exit from the European Union, 62 percent of Scots voting favored...
Jason Burke, writing in The Guardian, discusses why France is such a target for Islamic mass murderers. He observes, among other things that: "Undoubtedly, the role France has historically assumed as standard bearer of Western secular liberalism has put the...
Container ships in world trade. Despite Brexit and rising pressure for protectionism across the West, ''anyone who thinks globalization is dead misreads what's really happening,'' writes Michael Schuman in Bloomberg News. "While there are pockets of resistance, much...
The skyline of booming Shanghai. China has reported a higher-than-expected annualized growth rate of 6.7 percent, the same rate as in the first quarter. As with most dictatorships, it's difficult to know how accurate that number us. However, in any case, most...