• OPINION

  Brexit parade is in the EU's favour

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 03/05/2017

  » Leaked details of a dinner conversation between UK Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker suggest that the Brexit talks won't just be contentious -- they'll be brutal. At this point, the perception helps Ms May as much as it does the EU leaders. After the June election in the UK, however, Ms May will be at a disadvantage.

• OPINION

  The Cambridge Analytica red herring

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 21/03/2018

  » Facebook is being hammered for allowing the data firm Cambridge Analytica to acquire 50 million user profiles in the US, which it may or may not have used to help the Trump campaign. But the outrage misses the target: There's nothing Cambridge Analytica could have done that Facebook itself doesn't offer political clients.

• OPINION

  The cyber whodunnit and the global blame game

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 21/12/2017

  » The US government has officially attributed to North Korea the WannaCry ransomware attack, which encrypted hundreds of thousands of computer drives around the world in May, 2017. And yet as with a series of other highly public cyberattack attributions, little evidence for the claim was made public. It's time for the cybersecurity world to follow the advice of the Rand Corporation and set up an unbiased international consortium that would seek to attribute attacks based on a common set of rules.

• OPINION

  Crimean conflict simmers on with Jamala's victory

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 18/05/2016

  » Ukraine may not be able to win its wars against Russian-backed rebels and against domestic corruption, but it has just beaten Russia in spectacular fashion at the Eurovision Song Contest. The political message has been amplified by the pundits, but the Russians and Ukrainian voters themselves seemed unwilling to be dragged into the propaganda war.

• OPINION

  Return of Adolf Hitler makes for uneasy comedy

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 10/11/2015

  » The movie He's Back, a comedy that revolves around the return of Adolf Hitler to modern-day Germany, is a huge hit. There may be more than meets the eye to this success, however. 

• OPINION

  Elon Musk doesn't need more sleep, he needs better sleep

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 22/08/2018

  » Last week, Arianna Huffington said Elon Musk's lack of sleep is impairing his performance. "The science is clear," she wrote after Tesla's chief executive officer told <i>The New York Times</i> that he works 120 hours a week, leaving him with little time to rest.

• OPINION

  Stock market is a lot like bitcoin now

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 08/02/2018

  » Just as President Donald Trump had nothing to do with the stock market's rise, despite the almost 60 boastful tweets he has posted about it since being elected, he has nothing to do with the recent stock crash. Instead, praise the machines -- and blame them, too.

• OPINION

  Brexit reversal? The EU should simply say 'no way'

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 03/08/2017

  » Though most UK politicians would have us believe that "Brexit is Brexit", European leaders have recently spoken of a reversal of the UK's decision to leave the European Union as a real possibility. That should be alarming to anyone who cares about continuing the EU's resurgence since the 2016 vote.

• OPINION

  Happy nations don't only focus on economic growth

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 22/03/2017

  » The Socialist candidate for the French presidency, Benoit Hamon, says he doesn't believe in the "myth" and "quasi-religion" of growth -- it's part of the "consumerist, productivist and materialist model" of development, he argues.

• OPINION

  Why the Russian ambassador became a key target

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 22/12/2016

  » A growing geopolitical role comes at a price in blood, as Russia was forcefully reminded on Monday when its ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was shot in an Ankara art gallery. Russia might not be paying that price had it kept out of the Syrian conflict but, paradoxically, it has now joined the West in footing this bill.

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