The West’s Arrested Social Development

After three decades of worsening economic inequality, advanced-country populations are angry, and they are taking their grievances to the ballot box or the streets....

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 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....

Death by Dirty Cooking

Each year, exposure to household air pollution (HAP) kills 4.3 million people — more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. HAP is produced when...

Oceans as an Investment Priority

The Earth’s oceans face many threats, none of which have quick fixes. Still, the solutions are known, and with a sufficiently broad coalition of...

Fact-Checking Can Win the Fight Against Misinformation

According to fact-checkers at the Washington Post, US President Donald Trump has made more than 13,000 false or misleading claims since his inauguration. It...

Child Marriage is Stunting Development

At last month’s United Nations summit on the Sustainable Development Goals, child marriage did not get top billing. Yet ending this cruel practice -...

Preventing Digital Feudalism

The use and abuse of data by Facebook and other tech companies are finally garnering the official attention they deserve. With personal data becoming...

Regulating Cyberwarfare

Whether or not a conflict spirals out of control depends on the ability to understand and communicate about the scale of hostility. Unfortunately, when...

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