Why We Strike Again
For more than a year, children and young people from around the world have been striking for the climate. We launched a movement that...
Green Markets for Equitable Growth
The climate crisis and the 2008 financial crisis are two sides of the same coin. Both were born of the same toxic feature of...
The Most Important Story You Missed in 2019
According to the most recent tally, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal publish a combined total of 1,000 stories every day. Although the report...
The Right to Be Seen
While much of the developed world is properly worried about myriad privacy outrages at the hands of Big Tech and demanding – and securing...
Mind the Learning Gap
Despite frequent calls for action to provide universal primary education and eliminate gender disparities, few developing countries have made much progress toward these goals....
Toward a global biodiversity accord
Governments from around the world are already preparing for the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in...
Sporting Tribes
Siya Kolisi, who raised the Webb Ellis Cup for his country in Yokohama, Japan, early this month, is the first black man to captain...
Disrupting climate change through innovation
Because it poses an existential threat to humanity, climate change represents the bad kind of disruption. But it can, and must, be fought with...
Why the Plastic Crisis Matters
Plastics have become a hot topic. News stories about plastic on beaches and in the oceans abound, and policymakers have begun to respond with...
Ending the Global Media Crisis
Almost everywhere one looks nowadays, the news media are in crisis. And unfortunately, although a robust free press is fundamental to a well-functioning democracy,...