“You can't play Russian roulette any longer in diplomacy. You don't know what's coming up next...” — Nabil Fahmy “We are now living … not in a world...
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There is No Solution Without You
“What Covid has done is to apply an extraordinary and unusually powerful microscope to worldwide governance. And much of what we see through that...
Africa on the Run
“The journey to development has been stunted.” —Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr “Because there's less external pressure on the continent now than there has ever...
You May Choose to Look Away, But Never Again Say You Do Not Know
“The demand for exploitation is not just something that is related to poverty. It is related to a certain kind of human volition, which is global...
It’s (Still) The Economy, Stupid!
“In all of the West, we run into a divided society. Those who are smart enough to play on the stock market are fine; they can live. Those who are...
Can America halt its decline — and does it want to?
“We're shocked, for example, that trains don't work. We are shocked that the digital infrastructure is not good … America doesn’t not just invest in...
“What’s happened in 2020 is very promising.”
Those words have not been spoken by many this year. But Jorge Castañeda—Mexican educator, diplomat, former Foreign Minister, and frequent critic of...
On the Outside, Looking In: America in the Era of George Floyd
“Do I think that the U.S. is a racist country? Oh yes. Yes. This is a country that was built on that premise of the negation of humanity of part of...
The time for Climate Action is NOW
A recent global survey conducted by the Tällberg Foundation showed widespread enthusiasm for aggressive action to mitigate accelerating climate...