Feeding a planet of 7.7 billion people is no easy matter. Every person on the planet needs, expects, and has the right to a healthy diet. Every farmer needs,...
With U.S. President Donald Trump due to visit Europe again for the G-7 summit later this month, European leaders have run out of options for dealing with the...
How did the world’s two most venerable and influential democracies - the United Kingdom and the United States - end up with Donald Trump and Boris Johnson at...
U.S. President Donald Trump has based his foreign policy on a series of harsh economic blockades, each designed to frighten, coerce, and even starve the...
National politics in the United States has become enslaved to macroeconomic indicators that have little bearing on true well-being. For many commentators, the...
The solution to human-induced climate change is finally in clear view. Thanks to rapid advances in zero-carbon energy technologies, and in sustainable food...
Mental health professionals and others have been trying to warn the public of the dangers of U.S. President Donald Trump since his election.His extreme...
President Donald Trump’s announced withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria has met with near universal condemnation by Democrats and Republicans alike. That says...
Today, the provision of public goods and services at the global and regional level is dangerously inadequate. The United Nations system, the European Union...
The drama of Donald Trump’s presidency has centered around whether an extremist president would be able to carry out an extremist policy agenda against the...
America continues be in a state of civil war. Not just a civil war, but the Civil War. In the first round, back in the 1860s, the Confederacy lost. Yet now...
Back in 1965, Vaery Giscard d’Estaing, then France’s finance minister, famously called the benefits the United States reaped from the dollar’s role as the...
Modern humans, born into one climate era, called the Holocene, have crossed the border into another, the Anthropocene. But instead of a Moses guiding humanity...
The climate crisis we now face is a reflection of a broader crisis: a global confusion of means and ends. We continue to use fossil fuels because we can...
Donald Trump’s renunciation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran and the reimposition of U.S. sanctions on that country threaten global peace....
There are two types of foreign policy: one based on the principle “might makes right,” and one based on the international rule of law. The United States wants...
Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, recently noted that the public scrutiny of Facebook is “very much overdue,” declaring that “it’s shocking to me that...
The boldest plan to achieve the targets set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement comes from China. The Paris accord commits the world’s governments to keeping...
More than ever, the European Union needs unity to assert its values and interests in an age when U.S. global leadership is on the verge of collapse, China is...
Much of the carnage that has ravaged Syria during the past seven years is due to the actions of the United States and its allies in the Middle East. Now,...
The Global Partnership for Education, a worthy and capable initiative to promote education in 65 low-income countries, is having what the jargon of...
This Christmas, America’s gift to the world was a $285 million cut in the United Nations’ regular budget. Technically, the U.N. regular budget reflects a...
Friends of Germany and Europe around the world have been breathing a sigh of relief at the newfound willingness of Germany’s Christian Democrats and Social...
The U.S. plutocracy has declared war on sustainable development. Billionaires such as Charles and David Koch (oil and gas), Robert Mercer (finance), and...
The Las Vegas massacre and its aftermath are pure Americana. A deranged person lugs nearly two dozen high-tech assault weapons to a 32nd-floor hotel room to...