AI’s Pugwash Moment
Almost exactly 66 years ago, 22 preeminent scientists from ten countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, gathered in Pugwash, in the...
America’s Higher-Education Financing Challenge
Some 44 million Americans currently owe $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, and more than seven million of them were in default prior to...
UNESCO warns of misuse of technology in education, calls for better governance
A new UNESCO report on technology in education, titled "Technology in Education: A Tool on Whose Terms?", was launched on 19 July 2023 in...
What the Climate Fight Is Really About
Climate change is no longer a future problem. It is here, and the effects are all around. Worse, today’s extreme weather events are just...
An Immigration Wake-Up Call
For around a week in late June, Western media were obsessed with the fate of the Titan, a small submersible carrying a few billionaires...
World Bank Reflects Our Ambition
World leaders are all too familiar with the global community’s challenges — loss of progress in our fight against poverty, an existential climate crisis,...
A Humbling Economy for Economists
Given all the uncertainty in the world economy today, we have been reminded that for all the authority economics commands, it is still a...
Food Sovereignty Increases Food Security
If you are looking for an argument in West Africa, try asking which country serves the best jollof. While Senegalese can claim to have...
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory – scientists
By Georgina Rannard, Erwan Rivault, Jana Tauschinski
BBC climate reporter & data team
A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice...
Governing the Right to Food
When I was a child, my father, who had witnessed the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, told me how common ground...
