Category: World
Norway’s Funding Cutoff Is a Wake-Up Call for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations
Norway’s reported decision to review and place on hold aspects of its funding to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) should be understood…
Lawmakers From Three Continents Demand Action, Not Pledges, on Population and Health
The word heard most often at a two-day parliamentary forum in Cairo last week was not “commitment”; it was “follow-up.” And the difference…
Democrats playing catch up with their voters on Israel
Wendy Sherman, who served as deputy secretary of State under the Biden administration, made headlines in late April when she told Bloomberg that…
Are Democrats falling into a hawkish trap on China
If you ask Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), President Donald Trump’s trip to China is nothing short of disastrous. “He wants that deal so…
Why Gulf data centers became deliberate targets in Iran War
Iranian Shahed drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates before dawn on March 1, sparking fires and…
What Hungary’s New Pro-Democracy Government Means For Rule of Law
Péter Magyar, leader of the pro-democratic centre-right Tisza Party, which recently swept into power on an unstoppable wave of hope for change, has…
The Global Epidemic of Violence in an Age of Impunity
Violence has metastasized into humanity’s baseline condition. Yet international institutions remain paralyzed by vetoes and rivalry, offering hollow declarations while dehumanization becomes normalized….
Picking up on the vibes in Beijing before major Trump-Xi visit
President Trump’s impending meeting with President Xi in Beijing will naturally be largely devoted to discussing the Iran War. That war and this…
CBO: Golden Dome to cost $1.2 trillion
A new report estimates Golden Dome will cost taxpayers $1.2 trillion to build, deploy and operate over 20 years. For perspective, that price…
Ukraine’s conscription crisis is getting increasingly bloody
The war in Ukraine has been defined by periodic bursts of certainty that Russia is on the back foot, if not close to…
