By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Russia’s war in Ukraine has exposed India’s strategic vulnerabilities as few other things could, raising fundamental questions about the country’s position in the world, its regional security, and the wisdom of its long-term relationships.
By Nurul Izzah Anwar KUALA LUMPUR – The 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite attracted a global audience for its arresting portrayal of South Korea’s stark income inequality.
By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Although some supply shortages were anticipated as the global economy reopened after the COVID-19 lockdowns, they have proved more pervasive, and less transitory, than had been hoped.
By Chris Patten LONDON – One of my favourite cartoons shows an elderly, professorial-looking man talking to a much younger fellow, possibly a student.
By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – The restrictive, illiberal trend that has come to characterize India over the last five years has a new data point.
By Mabel van Oranje LONDON – With the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the world has lost an unstoppable force for good who taught compassion and forgiveness, and pursued his mission with a will of iron.
By Henrietta H. Fore and David Malpass WASHINGTON, DC – As the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches, classrooms remain fully or partially closed for as many as 647 million schoolchildren around the world.
By Bill Emmott LONDON – Those who are disappointed by the inconclusive outcomes of the COP26 climate-change meeting, US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent virtual summit, or efforts to achieve COVID-19 vaccine equity need to wake up about the world we live in.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Like many people, I am unnerved by clowns.
STOCKHOLM – As winter approaches, the Kremlin is instigating trouble in Europe.
By Josep Borrell BRUSSELS – A compass helps one find one’s way, and the “Strategic Compass” that I have drafted at the behest of the European Council will serve as an operational guide for the European Union’s development and decision-making on security and defense.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) fell far short of what is needed for a safe planet, owing mainly to the same lack of trust that has burdened global climate negotiations for almost three decades.
By Ann Aerts Ann Aerts is Head of the Novartis Foundation.
By Sania Nishtar ISLAMABAD – The number of days each year when the temperature exceeds 50°C (122°F) has doubled since the 1980s, and occurs in more places than ever.
By Chris Patten LONDON – I have read the obituaries of General Colin Powell, who died last week, with considerable sadness.
By Masood Ahmed WASHINGTON, DC – Epidemiologists tell us that COVID-19 was not a “black swan.”
By Vinod Thomas SINGAPORE – Scientific evidence can now link specific weather disasters to human-induced climate change.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The philosopher Immanuel Kant famously said that, “Whoever wills the end also wills…the indispensably necessary means to it that is in his control.”
By Mauricio Cárdenas WASHINGTON, DC – Earlier this year, the World Bank commissioned me and five fellow academics to develop recommendations on how to improve the methodology behind its annual Doing Business report, which ranked countries on the quality of their business regulations and their overall business environment.
By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – In the weeks since the Taliban’s theocratic terrorists returned to power in Kabul, the people of Afghanistan, particularly its women and girls, have been subjected to unimaginable suffering as the world’s attention turns to other issues.
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