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How America Can Make a Sustainable Industrial Transformation

By Sonia Aggarwal

Column: Why Climate Funders Should Be Backing Indigenous Groups

By Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

No, Today’s AI Isn’t Sentient

Column: How Carbon Markets Can Deliver to the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

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Stock Market Panic

The global system came under unusual and intense pressure over the weekend. New reports of quarantine against the coronavirus, a breakdown in OPEC negotiations about the levels of oil production, and an already tetchy financial...

By Zachary Karabell

What Happens Next With Turkey's Refugee Crisis

For a war that’s supposedly been won, Syria continues to bleed refugees at an alarming rate. Idlib, a city in the country’s northwest, is the final rebel holdout that keeps Bashar al-Assad—and his Russian backers—from...

By Ian Bremmer

Lessons of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

After the 1918 flu pandemic, many countries changed their approach to public health and disease. Will we do the same after COVID-19?

By Laura Spinney

Claudia Rankine Wants to Talk About White Privilege

The poet and playwright grapples with whiteness in the Trump era in a new play at The Shed in New York City

By Andrew R. Chow

The Democrats Need a New Tune

It may sound crazy, but the Democrats are singing Trump’s tune. We need a different song.Sure, the two parties are miles apart on everything from healthcare to immigration. The consequences of a second Trump term...

By Harry Boyte and Trygve Throntveit

Free Testing for Coronavirus

When Osmel Martinez Azcue returned to the US after a trip to China and developed a flu-like illness, he did exactly the right thing. He went to a hospital in Miami to get tested for...

By Gavin Yamey

Benjamin Netanyahu's Toxic Win in Israel Election

Hate won. Again. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, who will face a trial for charges of bribery later this month, has managed to get a significant lead in his third electoral showdown. It’s not...

By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Trump's Disgraceful Taliban Deal

There is a difference between peace and retreat. The Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban represents a full retreat. It’s an agreement that most Republicans would deplore if a Democrat president made the deal, and...

By David French

Supreme Court for the Rich

In 1983, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Raymond Dirks, an investment advisor who passed insider information on to his clients, who used it to make money. It seemed clear that using insider information...

By Adam Cohen

The Right Peace for Afghanistan

As we take the first major, halting steps toward a peace agreement in Afghanistan, all I can remember is how we got there in the first place. On 9/11, I was a newly promoted one-star...

By James Stavridis

A Stock Market Crash Was Coming, Coronavirus Was Just the Spark

After weeks of relative placidity about the global spread of the novel coronavirus, financial markets snapped to attention last week and plunged with dizzying speed. U.S. stocks lost nearly 12% and $3.5 trillion was erased...

By Zachary Karabell

The Violence Tearing Apart India

It takes a lot to overshadow a foreign visit by a sitting U.S. president. India managed the feat this week, as Delhi was plunged into violent chaos as protests over India’s controversial new citizenship law...

By Ian Bremmer

Ready For Peace with the Taliban

On September 26, 1996, the Taliban captured Kabul. I was a junior staffer at the Afghan Ministry of Defense. My job was mainly liaising with foreign and local media, international aid organizations and the small...

By Amrullah Saleh

Senate Sits on Gun Reform

August 31, 2019 began as a normal day.It was a normal day for a Texas trucker who was driving home from work. Same for a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, who was on his...

By Shannon Watts

We Need to Defend America's Research and Science From Foreign Spying

As a Harvard physics student, I got to learn from some of the smartest minds on earth. My professors were also good people, and the department has a proud history both of great discovery and...

By Seth Moulton

Trump and Modi Share View of World

President Donald Trump is due to make the first ever visit by an American head of state to Ahmedabad, the biggest city in the western state of Gujarat. It is the state that Narendra Modi,...

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