Opinion
AI summit a start but global agreement a distant hope
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak championed a series of landmark agreements after hosting the first artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit but a global plan for overseeing the technology remains a long way off.
Heart damage: another reason to cut down on children’s screen time
The effects of prolonged screen use during childhood have been extensively studied in recent years. Evidence indicates that excessive screen time is harmful both to neurological development and socialization.
As global debt worries mount, is another crisis brewing?
Record debts, high interest rates, the costs of climate change, health and pension spending as populations age and fractious politics are stoking fears of a financial market crisis in big developed economies.
Rising oil prices, surging inflation: The Arab embargo 50 years ago weaponized oil to inflict economic trauma – sound familiar?
Fifty years ago, a secret deal among Arab governments triggered one of the most traumatic economic crises to afflict the United States and other...
ESG bonuses are on the rise: Are they improving sustainability or just increasing executive wealth?
An increasing number of companies are paying bonuses to executives in the pursuit of sustainability. Driven by an ever-growing focus on global issues, more than three-quarters of large, publicly traded companies in Europe and North America now use environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) metrics when determining executive bonuses.
