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FRANKFURT – US President Donald Trump recently announced that professional work visas (H-1Bs) for the United States will now cost sponsoring...
MEXICO CITY – On October 1, Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, will begin her second year in office. While not necessarily coming...
TORONTO – In an America splintered by culture wars and, increasingly, by targeted violence, Robert Redford somehow belonged to everyone. Might his...
NEW HAVEN – China’s leaders are hard at work putting the finishing touches on the country’s 15th Five-Year Plan. Meanwhile, since the beginning...
KUALA LUMPUR – For decades after World War II, it was difficult to imagine the geopolitical West – and the rules-based international order more...
NEW YORK – Burning coal to generate power is so uneconomical that the Trump administration has resorted to issuing stay-open orders to prop up the...
MANAGUA – As a feminist activist and human-rights advocate, I have spent more than two decades fighting for democracy and justice in Nicaragua,...
SEOUL – For at least the last 150 years, state intervention in picking individual industries and firms to support has been shown to undermine...
PARIS/MUNICH – It is tempting to view AI as merely another technological advance, but that is like saying the steam engine was just a faster way to...
NEW YORK – The 2025 United Nations General Assembly opened with a major step toward implementing a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine...
GENEVA – As business, government, and nonprofit leaders debate the future of climate action ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (...
NEW HAVEN – With protectionism and industrial policy returning to advanced economies, and with geopolitical tensions on the rise, this is an...
PORT HARCOURT – This summer, a male patient at Specialist Hospital Damaturu in Nigeria’s Yobe State physically assaulted a female health-care...
ABUJA/DUBAI/SEATTLE – In Kiguna, a rural community in Nigeria, the fish trader Blessing Bitrus used to have just a few precious hours to sell the...
LONDON – It has become all but impossible to ignore the breathless media coverage of AI. The technology’s accelerating progress is treated as an...
PARIS – In 1999, one of us (Morin) introduced the term polycrisis to describe the web of interconnected catastrophes threatening our world. At the...
LONDON – The global food system is failing on multiple fronts. With more than 2.6 billion people unable to afford a healthy diet, over 500 million...
DNIPRO – In the nine months since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the overall goals of his agenda have become clear enough: weaken the...
BERLIN – Brexit, Donald Trump, COVID-19, Russia’s war on Ukraine, Trump 2.0: During the decade since the Paris climate agreement was signed, the...
WASHINGTON, DC – It’s September in Washington, and everyone knows what that means: the United States Congress is scrambling to agree on a budget...
EDINBURGH – Health systems around the world are overstretched and underfunded. In 2023, low-income countries spent just $10 per person annually on...