Many developing economies will likely begin to reconsider their participation in an unequal system that no longer serves their interests.
With the return of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, perhaps we should call the current era “end of progress.”
Syrians will not miss Assad, a brutal ruler who failed his people.
The situation in Sudan exposes a global economic logic that has remained obfuscated in other cases.
To be sure, economic development and demographics alone are not enough to guarantee Olympic success.
While the attempted assassinations of Trump and Fico have caused many liberals to tone down their rhetoric, such reactions miss the point.
We all know that we are part of nature and fully dependent on it for our survival, yet this recognition does not translate into action.
As climate change accelerates, heat waves are expected to become increasingly frequent and intense
In 2015, 193 countries gathered at the United Nations and pledged to end global hunger by 2030 as part of the Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The “Pandora Papers,” a new investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), has fuelled outrage around the world. Politicians, businesspeople,
After the United Nations General Assembly in New York last month, the UN is being asked to take on an outsize role in Afghanistan.
The geopolitical story of the last few years has featured Western democracies’ gradual awakening to the realities of an increasingly ambitious and authoritarian China.
Moves are afoot to replace or at least greatly weaken Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 2019.
There is ultimately no way to stabilise the climate without addressing the fact that humans are emitting far too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, year after year. But cutting emissions is not the only response to the climate crisis, nor was it the one that scientists proposed over half a century ago in the first-ever government report on climate change.
With low-income countries in Africa and elsewhere still imploring rich countries to stop stockpiling millions of unused Covid-19 vaccines, there are still real doubts as to whether the United States and Europe will honour the promise made at this year’s G7 summit to vaccinate the world by the end of 2022.
When I visited my parents in Bogota last month, I witnessed how people in their neighbourhood went up and down the streets begging for help to survive.
Having created the BRIC acronym to capture the collective potential of Brazil, Russia, India, and China to influence the world economy, I now must ask a rather awkward question: When is that influence going to show up?
In South Africa, many people struggle to access sufficient quantities of healthy food. Because their diets are high in processed foods, refined starch, sugar, and fat, they face a double burden of malnutrition and obesity, or what is known as “hidden hunger.”
