Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
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How the History of the Internet Could Inform the Future of Democracy and AI
The discussion continues the Burnes Center’s Rebooting Democracy in the Age of AI Lecture Series, hosted by Beth Simone Noveck, and kicks off The Internet We Deserve, a new lecture series moderated by John Battelle that features notable business, policy, technology...
Ukraine war puts many weapons in hands of criminals
The Russian-backed attack on eastern Ukraine has taken vast numbers of weapons out of the hands of irregular military units and put them into the criminal international arms business, which is selling the weapons far beyond the conflict zone. "Interviews by...
Greek parliament votes to lower voting age to 17
View of the Acropolis, in Athens. Greek lawmakers voted July 21 to lower the voting age to 17 from 18 and eventually eliminate a 50-seat bonus for the winning party. The drop in voting age will take effect in the next election, but the seat bonus will end two...
Why ‘Avengers’ keep attacking Nigerian oil facilities
Nigeria's oil wealth has been more of a curse than a blessing. Meanwhile, "Avengers'' who complain that people in the Niger River Delta have not received their fair share of oil revenues in this astonishingly corrupt nation step up their daily damage to oil-industry...
Chinese execs flooding into the U.S.
Thousands of Chinese executives have been moving to the U.S. to work for formerly American companies bought by Chinese firms. "We've seen a huge surge," Bernard Wolfsdorf, founder and managing partner of a U.S.-based immigration law firm, told CNN. "Chinese...
Trump’s remarks rattle NATO allies
America's NATO allies, already dealing with an aggressive Russia, the rise of nativist populism and the possible effects of Brexit, became even more worried this week when they read Donald J. Trump say that the United States might not come to the defense of NATO...
Libya complains about French troops
Libya’s U.N.-backed government has denounced France for sending troops into eastern Libya, declaring it a violation of Libyan sovereignty. The French sent in the troops to fight the Islamic State, whose followers have been murdering French people in large...