(Or, if you don't read French, as soon as it is translated. Seriously.)

It is increasingly difficult to provide a whole and appropriate context for the news that reach us. Consider just this sequence: last January, the Chinese used a ground-based missile to destroy one of their own satellites,...

Journalistic coverage of election campaigns is in need of reinvention. In many countries it has turned into a festival of soundbites, an endless exegesis of what a candidate says (speeches, position papers, televised debates) rather than who she is or what he does -- which are better predictors of future...

There is an assumption that many problems are so big and complex and cross-border (think climate change) that they cannot be solved by a single country, or by a group of countries, and that a sort of global governance is the only possible vehicle for solving them.

Letizia Moratti, the...

Sasa Vucinic announced it at TEDGLOBAL last Summer, raising both interest and skepticism: he wanted to sell "free press bonds." "If investors are willing to fund the US deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?," Vucinic said.

It's now reality: for the first time...