Erosion of US democracy, worrying for world
The anniversary of the 6 January, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has come and gone, and many Americans are deeply depressed that the...
Rise of Africa’s Health-Tech sector
Africa’s health systems suffer from serious inefficiencies. Countries across the continent struggle with disruptions in medical equipment and drug supply chains, last-mile health-services delivery,...
Asian success in emission reduction
World leaders came together in Glasgow last November to map out a path to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. But while the...
NFT, a market primed to collapse
In March 2021, the auction house Christie’s sold a JPEG file created by the artist Beeple for $69.3 million, a record for a digital...
Facebook, the new Opium of the Masses
In the war on disinformation, the enemy can be hard to determine. Journalists, politicians, governments, and even grandparents have been accused of enabling the...
COVID Goes to Court
The coronavirus is everywhere: in the air, on surfaces, in our respiratory tracts, and, over the past week, at the US Supreme Court. On...
Break the Vaccine Monopolies Now
WINNIE BYANYIMA
This month, the world could have been celebrating the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, vaccine apartheid and restricted production continue to fuel...
Clouds Over 2022
NOURIEL ROUBINI
Despite dips and disruptions from new variants of COVID-19, 2021 turned out to be a relatively positive year for economies and markets in...
Treating interconnected crises
BILL EMMOTT
Those who are disappointed by the inconclusive outcomes of the COP26 climate-change meeting, US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent...
Key to COVID-Powered Challenges of 2022
After a year in which people longed to get back to ‘normal’, it is now clear that COVID-19 will not make this possible. The...
