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
The global food system is unsustainable. While it is worth approximately USD 8 trillion annually, its negative impact is valued at roughly USD 12 trillion. And this is not the system’s only contradiction.
The upsurge of Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths in the United States serves as a bitter reminder that the pandemic is not over. The global economy will not return to normal until the disease is under control everywhere.
It is far from clear why President Joe Biden deserves the obloquy heaped on him for the US evacuation from Afghanistan.
It has been one year since the international community gave its backing to the Covid-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) facility to lead a worldwide effort to end the acute phase of the pandemic.
The Tokyo Olympic Games are over, and the Japanese people and government have heaved a sigh of relief that the spectacle passed without a major Covid-19 outbreak in the athletes’ village or other disasters.
After months of negotiations, the United States Senate recently passed a USD 1 trillion infrastructure bill. Passed by a vote of 69 to 30, it was an impressive display of bipartisanism at a time of deep polarisation.
The world has finally awoken to the existential imperative of securing a rapid transition to a green economy.
Presidents, generals, dictators, and ordinary people take big risks when they have nothing to lose, similar to a quarterback in American football throwing a so-called Hail Mary pass.
For nearly a decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping has been promising to deliver “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” This promise—which he dubbed the China Dream—took a clearer form with the introduction of the two centenary goals: building a “moderately prosperous
Most of the “geopolitical” threats, real or confected, that capture headlines in the West nowadays are exogenous—emanating from China, Russia, Iran, and so forth. But others lie within the world’s democracies. Among these are the US Republican Party’s embrace of Trumpian
