United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has accepted Trump nominee Luke Lindberg from among dozens of candidates to lead the ​World Food Programme, a document showed and a U.N. ‌official confirmed on Tu...

This is a field-defining open access playbook for identifying and responding to the global regulatory challenges created by large digital platforms.Here Nanjala…

The Southern Questions series features first-hand accounts – memoirs, novels, pamphlets – written by participants in the drama of decolonization and its aftermath. This week we welcome Ruth First's Th...

‘Never Speak About It’: Leaked Audit Reveals the UN’s Palantir Problem - PassBlue

In the 1980s, Dutch politics underwent a neoliberal turn overseen by the Christian Democrat Ruud Lubbers. It formed part of an interna­tional trend, famously spearheaded by Reagan and Thatcher. What w...

LEO Technologies adds AI voice biometrics and video analytics to identify speakers and detect behavior, relationships and emerging threats in prisons.

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.

UNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment.

What are we still waiting to learn?

Following the horrifying death of Ann Widdecombe, Professor Stuart Gordon reflects on his encounters with the formidable politician, exploring what her faith and conservative friction with organizatio...

Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

Amid the sharp aid decline, the elite club of powerful western economies, and still the world’s top aid donors, wants to swap the traditional handout model for investment and partnerships.

Gruppierungen wie "Ballers in God" oder "Fußball mit Vision" versuchen ihre Auslegung der Bibel gezielt bei Jugendlichen zu platzieren. Mit Hilfe prominenter F…

Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!), so I thought I’d have a go at a remembrance. Raúl lived his life…

Outsourcing giant VFS Global has made huge profits by exploiting people around the world whose ‘weak’ passports require them to apply for visas to travel