Articles and opinion

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A brief history of global AI governance

Article / 8th September 2026

Flagging the limits and dangers of unregulated Artificial Intelligence, Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami call for international cooperation to align AI with the collective interests of humanity, not corporate profiteering.

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Will the future of the UN be dictated by a hostile US?

Article / 3rd September 2026

As the UN commemorates its 81st anniversary, one lingering question remains: what is the future of the world body?

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Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis

Article / 1st September 2026

Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price – with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for education and health – for global heating caused by wealthy states.

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The century-old legal fiction costing America $35.5 billion a year

Article / 27th August 2026

One of the stranger features of the modern economy is that we no longer disagree about what a multinational corporation is—until the conversation turns to tax.

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This UN Tax Conference might sound boring, but here is how we all have a stake in it

Article / 12th August 2026

The decisions being made in this conference are simple yet consequential to our lives: will polluters profiting from the economic and climate crises—that the rest of us are paying for—be made to pay their share? 

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