I’m sure I’m not the only person who secretly likes a one-star review. It’s awful to get one yourself (and I have, several ...

No one becomes an anti-corruption activist to make money, least of all in Ukraine. When I first met the co-founders of the ...

I was invited to deliver a keynote speech at the ‘ AI for Good Summit ’ this year, and I arrived at the venue with an open mind and hope for change. With a title “ AI for social good: the new face of ...

In small-town Kazakhstan, an experiment with the “smart city” model has some residents smiling. But it also signals the start of a new mass surveillance era for the Central Asian nation.

An underground network of wildlife enthusiasts and their billionaire backers claim they’re restoring Europe’s biodiversity. But some scientists say they could destroy it.

When I think back to my time growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s in a small authoritarian Eastern European state bordering Greece, Turkey, Romania and the Black Sea, one scene always springs to mind: ...

Former Soviet Republics have a lot in common with countries that have struggled against Western colonialism. So why don't we tend to see Russia as a colonizer?

A ban on protests is raising deep questions about who is considered part of the nation and what, exactly, Germany has learned from its history.

Librarians across the country are under threat as efforts to ban books about marginalized groups reach a fever pitch.

Borders are liminal, notional spaces made more unstable by unparalleled migration, geopolitical ambition and the use of technology to transcend and, conversely, reinforce borders. Perhaps the most ...

Meet the Russian neo-Nazis fighting for Ukraine. Russian ultranationalists confronted their own government on the battlefields of Ukraine.