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The Year Ahead 2027

Throughout the past year, the world stood witness to runaway developments in unregulated AI alongside catastrophic foreign adventurism by the world’s leading military power. With many warning that we are approaching a technological cliff—beyond which reliable forecasting, let alone practical governance, becomes impossible—the need for serious, responsible leadership has never been greater.

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Past Issues

  1. PSQ3_2026_Slopocalypse Now_Cover

    Slopocalypse Now

    Driven by the same incentives that brought us social media and its many social and political ills, the tech industry’s pivot to generative AI has cast further doubts on the potential for online life to serve positive human ends. The question now is whether those still offering a humanistic vision of online life can make themselves heard over the din.

  2. PSQ1_2026_Winners&Losers_Cover

    Winners & Losers

    Broad historical developments, together with recent policy changes, are reshuffling the economic and financial deck, injecting uncertainty into many markets, and putting a premium on economic security. The result will be new winners and losers within households, communities, professions, industries, markets, and regions – and across the global economy.

  3. PSQ3_2025_The Year Ahead 2026_FlatImage_No Auhtors

    The Year Ahead 2026

    Not since the end of World War II has the lack of clear global leadership or anything resembling an “international community” been so apparent. Donald Trump's return to the White House has confirmed that the world we once knew is on its way out.

  4. PSQ3_2025_What Works_FlatImage_Auhtors

    What Works?

    While it is reasonable to ask why progress toward so many development targets has stalled and who is to blame, a more fruitful question is how to get the agenda back on track. We need only open our eyes to find reformers, innovators, activists, and others who are keeping the promise of sustainable development alive.