Global Health, the Best Investment We Can Make
No one could have predicted the extent to which COVID-19 would erode decades of progress in global public health. And the world is still...
Free Speech for Whom?
How is it that a man who has banned 83 million people from Twitter can freely use the platform to post his messages denigrating...
Libertarian Lettuce
Following the brutal market backlash against her plans for unfunded tax cuts and tens of billions of pounds in additional spending, Liz Truss resigned...
The Great Chips War
In addition to dealing with the fallout from open warfare in eastern Europe, the world is witnessing the start of a full-scale economic war...
Preparing for the Next Global Catastrophe
After two and a half years of lockdowns, quarantines, and mask mandates, billions of people around the world have returned to their normal lives....
Failing the Pandemic Preparedness Test
The pandemic is not over. While the summer of 2022 is very different from the summer of 2020, because we now have vaccines, treatments,...
A Bold and Realistic Energy Transition
Record growth in renewables, representing over 80 percent of all new power-generating capacity last year, is the clearest sign yet that the energy transition...
Climate Consensus in the Middle East
This week, I met a teenager in Ramallah named Miriam, who shared how much she has benefited from one of the 450 solar-powered schools...
Contradictions of Compassion
Almost 2.5 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Poland since the Russian invasion began, and more than 350,000 have entered Hungary. But in 2015,...
Fear of the unknown
Our world is an arena for all sorts of conflict and competitions and thus a huge battlefield. Smaller countries are threatened continuously and sometimes...
