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WASHINGTON, DC—Four years ago, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework,...
TEL AVIV—Before Israel’s election, I warned that no one should pin high hopes on the outcome. Sadly, that advice has been vindicated. An...
CHICAGO—Imagine, for a moment, that the US midterm elections had not delivered Democratic wins at a generational scale, but merely a trickle of...
WASHINGTON, DC—Many countries are trying to do more for their citizens, albeit often with outdated systems. That means accessing government services...
LJUBLJANA—My duty as a philosopher is to spoil the ecstatic sense of relief that has followed the US midterm elections. Yes, at first glance, we all...
NEW DELHI—The world is entering the AI age with the United States and China having established clear technological dominance over all other...
WASHINGTON, DC—Recent visits to South Africa and Ghana brought home to me the scale of Africa’s urban development opportunity. In Johannesburg and...
NEW DELHI—Following a summer of discontent, India has entered an autumn of political crisis. During a scorching June and July, a youth-led movement,...
BOSTON/GENEVA/SEATTLE—As world leaders gather in Antalya, Turkey, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), climate adaptation is...
MELBOURNE—For over 30 years, Pacific island countries have issued the same warning at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference: the...
WASHINGTON, DC—Twenty years. Thirty years. Eighty years, and even 90. Some of the positions Democratic candidates won in Tuesday’s midterm...
LONDON—It is a truth universally acknowledged that transformative new technologies rewrite the rules of finance. Or so we are told in numerous...
WASHINGTON, DC—After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the United States sought to freeze Russia out of the global financial...
KASHGAR—In what is best read as a preemptive swipe at Isabella Weber’s new book, Anti-Fascist Economics, Jason Furman, the chair of the White...
WASHINGTON, DC—The grandiose claim that “Britannia rules the waves” inspired the wry quip that, in fact, Britannia waives the rules. While the...
WASHINGTON, DC—We should have learned by now that good politics depends not so much on good institutions as on the moral sentiments supporting them....
BALTIMORE/BOGOTÁ—For most people, the word “oligarch” conjures images of Russian elites who amassed huge fortunes in the wake of the Soviet...
WARSAW—In a shocking moment that went viral, Polish President Karol Nawrocki and his cronies were recently filmed breaking into the Constitutional...
NEW YORK—Over several centuries, nation-states have come to define the international system and govern much of humanity. After emerging in modern...
BERLIN—Recent events have cast European politics into sharper relief. With left-wing protests, some violent, engulfing cities from Paris to Milan to...
PARIS—I was born in Germany, I studied in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and I served as a reserve officer in the French Navy. Today, I am a...
BANGKOK—For seven decades, some of the world’s biggest official creditors have coordinated their positions in negotiations with debtor countries...
WASHINGTON, DC—In the nearly two years since he returned to the White House, US President Donald Trump has picked up where he left off in his first...
CHICAGO—Sometime in the 18th century, the Enlightenment settled a contentious, centuries-old question: Where does knowledge come from? For...
WASHINGTON, DC—“There is a fight coming in British politics. A fight that we have not seen in this country for more than half a century. It will...
WARSAW—Dramatic scenes are playing out at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal amid a wave of speculation about whether Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s...