Building the future: Gulf states pave the way to diversification

More than $75bn of construction projects were awarded in Gulf states last year, with much more expected, but the cranes across Riyadh, Muscat, and Dubai are building more than just skylines.

Neil Quilliam

The Great Free-Speech Reversal

There is a rich historical irony to the fact that today, conservatives are the ones who argue most forcefully that the decisions by private companies to “deplatform” certain speakers threaten what…

Genevieve Lakier

India Has a Fake-Jobs Problem

OnJuly 1, a few days after a woman inIndiaregistered for an account on the careers siteNaukri.comand uploaded a resume, a recruiter called her: One of the country’s leading real-estate companies was…

Snigdha Poonam

What Will Happen to Cities in 2021?

The post-pandemic world approaches. According to some projections, up to half of all Americans could be vaccinated by June, and another 30 percent may have acquired natural immunity through infection…

Derek Thompson