Navigating a World in Shock
Make no mistake: We no longer live in a stable international rules-based order. The days of unipolarity and global liberalism are over, and we...
Best Way to Preserve Nature Is Also the Fairest
This is a critical year for the natural environment. Negotiations by world leaders in Montreal this December will determine the fate of the post-2020...
Childish Morality?
Consider the following statements describing our moral judgments:
If a child is hungry, or hurt, the child’s parents or friends have a greater obligation to...
Rays of Hope in the Climate Struggle
We have grown accustomed to grim climate news. Despite scientists’ warnings and communities’ protests, catastrophic floods, record-breaking heat waves, devastating wildfires, and famine-inducing droughts...
Health Messaging in the Disinformation Age
As the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Walensky, recently acknowledged, poor public-health communication and messaging throughout the...
Inflation’s Emotional Scars
Until this year, inflation in advanced economies like the United States and the United Kingdom had been so low for so long that one...
Great Moderation to Great Stagflation
The world economy is undergoing a radical regime shift. The decades-long Great Moderation is over.
Coming after the stagflation (high inflation and severe recessions) of...
All are welcome at the Climate Club
By the end of 2022, the G7 aims to launch an ‘open, cooperative international Climate Club’ to foster coordinated action to achieve the Paris...
Universal Basic Income helps tide over crises
When the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting recession pushed 120 million people worldwide into extreme poverty in 2020, many countries relied on social-protection measures...
Aiding the Digital Revolution in Global Financial Inclusion
Around the world, high inflation, slow economic growth, and food shortages are hurting the poor the most. Coming on top of the unequal effects...
