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 development and approval of safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines less than a year after the start of the pandemic is a truly remarkable achievement, offering hope that the end of this devastating crisis may be in sight.
There is so much to celebrate with the new year. The arrival of safe, effective Covid-19 vaccines means that there is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (though the next few months will be horrific). Equally important, America’s mendacious, incompetent, mean-spirited president will be replaced by his polar opposite: a man of decency, honesty, and professionalism.
As anyone who has ever been responsible for legislative oversight of central bankers knows, they do not like to have their authority challenged.
China’s pledge in September to pursue carbon neutrality by 2060 was followed by a similar pledge from Japan a month later.
The European Commission has just unveiled landmark regulations for the digital economy, setting yet another global standard.
Any objective observer of the American political system must wonder why, when the United States confronts the world’s highest Covid-19 death toll and a ravaged economy, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will do nothing but confirm outgoing President Donald Trump’s appointees to the federal judiciary. It’s strange behaviour.
It is already apparent that the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic will be uneven, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the fallout.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, public life in much of the world has largely ground to a halt. For the two billion people living in conflict-affected countries, however, there has been no lull in violence and upheaval.
For much of its life, the United Nations has hidden behind the comfortable maxim that “If we didn’t have it, we would have to invent it.” Now at the venerable age of 75 (old enough to have been a 2020 US presidential candidate), the organisation still enjoys widespread approval in global opinion polls.
Covid-19 continues to have a devastating impact on public health and to rattle the global economy with structural shocks.
