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...
Transforming Education
Global Education is in crisis. Today, nearly 300 million children do not go to school, and 800 million young people will leave school without...
What Is Web3 Good For?
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control recently sanctioned a technology called Tornado Cash, on the grounds that it “has...
A Faster Route to Greener Shipping
Delegates from over 190 countries recently gathered in Lisbon for the United Nations Ocean Conference, the most important event on this issue this year....
Green Development Is Now the Only Option
In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, this year’s energy crisis has intensified the debate over what...
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...
Free Speech Is Not a License to Kill
Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old Lebanese-American charged with attempting to murder the British author Salman Rushdie, appears to have been acting on his own. Matar...
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...
Is the World’s Financial Firefighter Ready?
The world needs to prepare for a cascade of financial crises across emerging and developing economies. The writing is already on the wall, with...
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...
