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An overview of all the major threats that humanity might come face to face in the year 2022.

Beware the demoralising effects of impersonal systems for evaluating employees

India's current playbook will require a re-think. The state is very poor at picking global corporate champions.

Aid to Afghanistan since 2001

Rising authoritarianism around the world, like climate change and the evolution of lethal viruses, can pose an existential risk to humanity

NEW YORK — US President Joe Biden’s recent Summit for Democracy was an important global event, but it slipped by almost unnoticed. With democratic norms fraying from southeast Asia to central Europe, Biden was right to warn of “the sustained and alarming challenges to democracy and universal human rights”. But too few acknowledge that rising authoritarianism around the world,

Increased outsourcing of production has contributed to hypernationalism, which in turn is fueling the rise of anti-democratic leaders who exploit people’s desperation.

From Institute-wide efforts to address the climate crisis to responding to Covid-19, members of the MIT community made headlines this year for their

BOSTON — The squabbling that has erupted within the US Democratic Party following its loss in the recent Virginia gubernatorial election has convinced many observers that the Republicans will handily retake the House of Representatives next year. In fact, it is the right whose future is most uncertain — a problem for which we are all paying the price.

Daron Acemoglu wonders if the center right is still capable of constructively adapting to changing circumstances.