Whose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st century

Americans have been worrying that their country's best days are behind it since before the American century began. And n... Read more

The largest document leak in recent history, the Panama Papers, was facilitated by 400 journalists at 107 news organizat... Read more

Identity can be a tricky thing, especially if you're adopted from a country and culture that sees ethnic identity as imm... Read more

The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed, science fiction writer William Gibson has famously said. B... Read more

Few generations in the world face a reality as dramatically different from all that have come before, as China's one-chi... Read more

Conspiracy theories thrive amidst distrust — distrust of power, distrust of the "other," distrust of the unknown. They c... Read more

Is the world facing an ebb in democracy and a rise of authoritarianism? Seems so when you look at some countries, but it... Read more

Japan's economic growth is anemic, its population is aging and shrinking, and some Japanese wonder if Japan will still m... Read more

What polling data best indicates whether someone will support Donald Trump? It's whether they skew authoritarian on a se... Read more

Can China become a global leader in innovation by protecting state-run companies from competition at home, while acquiri... Read more

Populist leaders and strongmen often rise at times of dizzying, unsettling change. But what if that's exactly the wrong ... Read more

Brazil's economy was blazing along in the first decade of this century, turbo-charged by China's appetite for commoditie... Read more

What happens when you mix the efficiency and energy of the entrepreneurial world with the idealism of philanthropy? A gr... Read more

The Magna Carta celebrates its 800th anniversary with a swing through China. But is the Magna Carta's core principle, th... Read more

Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo spent much of his life advocating for basic political rights and democracy in China.... Read more

The past century brought a revolution in journalism — radio, television, Internet. How did it feel to riding that wave, ... Read more

President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima in Japan will be the first ever by a sitting US president, remembering the h... Read more

Not so long ago, Myanmar (Burma) was a good news story, with democratic reforms, a booming economy and falling poverty r... Read more

Heads up, Silicon Valley, Bangalore's not just for outsourcing anymore. It's rising fast as a world-class hub of tech an... Read more

If the arc of history bends toward justice, the needs of the nation during World War II sped the process — not by design... Read more