One hundred years ago to the month, the collapsing Ottoman Empire was finally out of its misery in the Treaty of Sevre. However, in an echo of...
Sometimes History Rhymes
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The crisis of democracy and governance
Are We Really All in This Together?
Why do we seem unable to work together to manage our common home? Is the Covid pandemic considered “global” while Ebola was not, because...
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...
African Possibilities
At least so far, what plagues Africa is less Covid-19, than its consequences: collapsed economies, an industrial world that is closing to Africa, a...
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...
STOP SLAVERY NOW!
Why do nations, rich and poor, tolerate widespread slavery, human trafficking and even the buying and selling of young children in the 21st...
“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...
Is America Finished?
Why has America stopped investing in itself? Why do things—from cell phones to highways to schools to trains—work so much better in so many...
America: Darkness Before the Crack of Dawn?
Maybe this mess—a resurgent pandemic, collapsing economy, screaming politicians, and deep racial inequalities laid bare—is exactly what the United...