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.
BOGOTÁ – Biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people around the world are declining at an unprecedented rate.
By Jorge G. Castañeda MEXICO CITY – Since the first days of Joe Biden’s presidency, his administration has insisted that the growing number of migrants being apprehended at the US-Mexico border is not a “crisis,” but rather a normal, seasonal spike.
By Chris Patten LONDON – The basic text making the case for an international-relations rulebook was provided by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides in his account of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BCE.
By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Moves are afoot to replace or at least greatly weaken Kristalina Georgieva, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director since 2019.
CAPE TOWN/BERLIN – The northern summer of 2021 has brought a series of record-breaking natural disasters.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Thirty years ago this month, a group of communist hardliners seized control of Moscow and placed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest at his holiday home in Crimea.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking.
By Michael R. Bloomberg NEW YORK – Each year, more than 80,000 children globally die from a danger that gets little public attention and is not taken seriously enough by governments: drowning.
By Richard Haass NEW YORK – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country.
By Håvard Halland and Günther Thallinger PARIS/MUNICH – Institutional investors are increasingly embracing the effort to achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 2050.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The Group of Twenty has become a pillar of multilateralism.
By Zhang Jun SHANGHAI – The great powers in history have tended to have one thing in common: size matters.
By Paul Gruenwald NEW YORK – Research into economic growth has a long and distinguished history, but the recent introduction of sustainability into the debate has given the field a necessary and overdue shake-up.
By Josep Borrell and Paolo Gentiloni BRUSSELS – Multilateralism has been on the defensive in recent years.
By Jorge G. Castañeda MEXICO CITY – In the Caribbean, summer is when things happen.
By Juan Manuel Santos BOGOTÁ – In Paradise Lost, the English poet John Milton encapsulates a fundamental truth about the struggle to end a violent conflict and establish a sustainable peace: “Who overcomes by force, Hath overcome but half his foe.”
By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Isabella Massa Isabella Massa is Senior Economist at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
By Mary Robinson DUBLIN – The COVID-19 pandemic has recast the world for millions of people.
By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Geoffrey Heal NEW YORK – Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, argued that the pursuit of private interests – profits – will invariably promote the common good.
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