
Trump's son-in-law and adviser may have lost his access to the country's top secrets, but his business entanglements underscore a historical shift from a political to an economic era.
Jay Ogilvy joined Stratfor's board of contributors in January 2015. In 1979, he left a post as a professor of philosophy at Yale to join SRI, the former Stanford Research Institute, as director of research. Dr. Ogilvy co-founded the Global Business Network of scenario planners in 1987. He is the former dean and chief academic officer of San Francisco's Presidio Graduate School. Dr. Ogilvy has published nine books, including Many Dimensional Man, Creating Better Futures and Living Without a Goal.
Trump's son-in-law and adviser may have lost his access to the country's top secrets, but his business entanglements underscore a historical shift from a political to an economic era.
The new Hulu original series -- based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the events that led up to and followed the fateful Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- illustrates the sometimes monumental role of the individual in geopolitics.
It's a mark of our intellectual advancement that we increasingly distrust authorities and their expertise. But in matters as dicey as nuclear proliferation, the vast learning and experience of scholars like Philip Bobbitt bear heeding.
In our headlong quest for bigger, better, faster artificial intelligence, we run the risk of rendering our own intelligence artificial.
The young Saudi crown prince's tough approach and brusque demeanor rub some in and outside the kingdom the wrong way. But the shake-up he's carrying out may be just what Saudi Arabia needs to survive in a new era.
The recent attack in New York exemplifies the familiar pattern that mainstream broadcasters have fallen into -- and that terrorists have come to rely on.
Personalized news feeds can trap us in worlds of our own making.
The view of history as a series of repeating cycles or waves is a tempting way to explain the trajectory of global civilization. But are the dynamics of those waves or cycles well enough understood to yield useful predictions?
In many ways, authors William Strauss and Neil Howe have provided a blueprint of the future for the White House's chief strategist.
Russia is only now starting to emerge from a two-year recession that has hit its citizens' pocketbooks hard. But many still seem to hold the president in high regard.
Geopolitics isn't just about military strength, economic growth and political institutions. It's also about the ways we interact with one another.
A number of factors, not just one, have come together to create a kind of perfect storm for democracy. Among them: globalization, immigration, populism, inequality, the Iraq War and its legacy, China, and the economic recession. For some, technology is the answer to advancing humankind, but there are those that advocate proceeding with caution...