Western Distraction from Climate Action
It should be common knowledge by now that climate change is a complex problem with outsize consequences for the Global South. By 2030, most...
Give Americans a Debt Brake
Since 1960, the United States has raised its debt ceiling 78 times – soon to be 79, if Congress approves the latest last-minute deal....
UN urges global cooperation to address consequences of climate change
During a meeting of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, the United Nations called for urgent international coordination to tackle the consequences of climate...
On How Much Work is Enough
The COVID-19 pandemic might be officially over, but much like a railway switchyard, it has already diverted countless lives onto wildly different paths. Millions...
Backsliding on Maternal Mortality
In 2020, an estimated 287,000 women died in pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after delivering, according to the latest data from the United Nations Maternal...
Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming
Last November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, concluded on a historic high note, with the last-minute agreement to establish...
A World of Debt
Recent headlines seem to augur a global debt crisis. The United States is teetering on the precipice of a self-inflicted default. Egypt, Ghana, Pakistan,...
Keeping Small Islands Financially Afloat
It is too early to tell whether all the talk about reforming development finance at this year’s International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring...
Half a Century of Animal Liberation Is Not Enough
Fifty years ago, my first article arguing that it is wrong to treat animals as we do appeared in The New York Review of...
Climate Elephants in the Room
Now that the falsehoods and obfuscation of climate denialism have finally been silenced, addressing climate change has become the world’s top priority. But time...
