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 political environment in Central and Eastern Europe is ideal for populists who refuse to participate constructively in the European project.
Under President Donald Trump's leadership, the United States took another major step toward establishing itself as a rogue state on June 1, when it withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. For years, Trump has indulged the strange conspiracy theory that, as he put it in 2012, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.” But this was not the reason Trump advanced for withdrawing the US from the Paris accord. Rather, the agreement, he alleged, was bad for the US and implicitly unfair to it.
Trump's jumpiness whenever the Russia question comes up has only added to suspicions that he may have something to hide. It has also led him to make a series of mistakes.
In 2012, the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases signalled a bold new vision for international cooperation, in which networking and globalisation could underpin efforts in the global South to eradicate deadly diseases that disproportionately affect the poorest communities. The London Declaration — the largest global public-health collaboration to date — helped to foster trust in the rules-based global order that emerged after World War II.
It is accomplished…” In the years when I listened to music nonstop, the passage marked by those words was for me one of the most
With Helmut Kohl's death, “the largest figure on the continent of Europe for decades,” as Bill Clinton described the former German chancellor, has left us. Kohl possessed most of the talents of a successful politician: ambition, ruthlessness, tenacity, tactical skills, and a sense for the minds of ordinary people.
One thing we do know is that the future will be shaped by two key trends: digitisation and urbanisation. And the possibilities introduced by the former will likely help us overcome the problems associated with the latter.
Today, it appears that every single election in Europe can be reduced to one central question: “Is it a win or a loss for populism?” Until the Netherlands' election in March, a populist wave – or, as Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party,
No, Parisian voters are not “vomitatious,” as the pathetic Henri Guaino proclaimed Monday after losing his seat in the National Assembly.
US President Donald Trump, with the help of a Republican-controlled Congress, is undermining many of the fundamental values that Americans hold dear.
