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...
A True Leadership
We live in a world of growing complexity and diversity in which people face many challenges such as fear of the future, how to...
A Balanced Response to Inflation
Although some supply shortages were anticipated as the global economy reopened after the COVID-19 lockdowns, they have proved more pervasive, and less transitory, than...
Realism About Foreign-Policy Realism
Was the current crisis in Ukraine caused by a lack of realism in US foreign policy? According to some analysts, the liberal desire to...
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...
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...
