Prince Mohammed could well prove to be the figure that provides Saudi Arabia with a path to the future. But it is a very big gamble.

Donald Trump has no idea that the principal source of support, financial and ideological, that Salafist terrorists use has Saudi Arabia written all over it.

Two competing visions of ensuring regime survival are battling it out in the Gulf.

Between two bad actors at odds in the Gulf, the U.S. President has volunteered to take sides. Aiding and abetting Saudi Arabia is dangerous.

Qatar makes longer-term investments in religious or ideological factions.

America turns its back on the world’s starving – will the G20 come to the rescue?

Having met an earlier goal of reducing extreme poverty, can the world end it?

Half of all people living in extreme poverty worldwide reside in sub-Saharan Africa.

How many people worldwide are living on less than $1.90 per day?

With the decline of the middle classes, social classes are back on the global agenda. That is politically dangerous.