This article unpacks Xi Jinping's consolidation of power, the nature of his rule, and what China's trajectory means for the global balance between authoritarianism and democracy.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.