Getting Drug Development Right
As political theater, it would be hard to beat US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders’ recent grilling of Moderna...
Journalists as Activists
Should journalists say and write what they think? Recent controversies have given new urgency to old questions about journalists’ professional ethics and political role...
An Insolvency Iceberg
The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10 was met by an equally swift response from US regulators, who announced plans to...
Tax the Rich to Save the Planet
STOCKHOLM – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a final warning to humanity: unless we halve greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 2030,...
Beyond Industrial Policy
The United States has (re)discovered industrial policy. As President Joe Biden’s National Security Strategy puts it, the administration views ‘modern industrial and innovation strategy’...
The Constitution of Uzbekistan Enshrines the Norms of Environmental Law
Today our life is undergoing profound qualitative changes. Cardinal reforms are rapidly forming a completely new image of our society. The new edition of...
World Bank and tackling Climate Change
Few institutions have shown as much versatility and adaptability as the World Bank. Initially founded to address global capital-market imperfections after World War II,...
Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis
The world is becoming accustomed to the drip-drip of catastrophic headlines following each new climate-driven disaster. Increasingly frequent and severe heat-waves are causing wildfires...
Austerity, squeezing the most vulnerable
When Edmundo, a waste picker in Peru, caught COVID-19, he had to take out a bank loan to pay for his visit to the...
Another Predictable Bank Failure
The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), on which nearly half of all venture-backed tech start-ups in the United States depend, is in part...
