Vol. 01 · Issue 03Geopolitics

The New Geography of Sanctions

Mapping the asymmetries in how financial exclusion is weaponised — and who decides which economies get locked out.

Yemi AdeyemiMay 5, 202614 min read

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Education & Inclusion

Unseen in the Classroom

Neurodevelopmental disorders and the identification gap in India's K–12 school system — Cortical's founding research brief.

Cortical Cohort 01·20 min
AI & Technology

The Alignment Problem, Revisited

Why current safety benchmarks fail to capture the real risk surface of large language models deployed at scale.

Priya Mehta·11 min
Public Policy

The Governance Gap: Why Regulation Always Arrives Late

Regulatory frameworks for emerging technologies share a structural flaw — they respond to harm rather than anticipating it.

Arjun Kapoor·9 min