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Monday 24/December/2018 21:38 PM

Good riddance to 2018

Sadly, 2018 will not be remembered as a year of political and diplomatic success. Though the international order had already begun to erode in 2017, the...

Monday 24/December/2018 14:32 PM

Macron’s misstep is Europe’s loss

Are the Yellow Vest protests across France as consequential as the mass rallies of May 1968? It is too soon to say. The revolt has forced French President...

Monday 24/December/2018 14:30 PM

Decision time for Europe

Say what you will against the European Union, but it does not lack ambitions or plans for realizing them. Almost immediately after the June 2016 Brexit...

Monday 24/December/2018 14:28 PM

For climate safety, call in the engineers

This month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland succeeded in producing a rulebook to implement the 2015 Paris climate...

Monday 24/December/2018 14:26 PM

A business model for sustainability

In a recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that without “rapid and far-reaching” changes to how land, energy,...

Sunday 23/December/2018 14:26 PM

A comeback for Congress

The stunning victory this month of the opposition Indian National Congress in three elections to state assemblies – the local “parliaments” that...

Sunday 23/December/2018 14:24 PM

R.I.P. Brexit?

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to withdraw her country from the European Union in an orderly fashion is collapsing. Though she has survived a...

Sunday 23/December/2018 14:21 PM

Globalization 4.0 for whom?

Imagine a world in which women and girls have their rights respected, climate change receives the attention it so urgently requires, and poverty has been...

Sunday 23/December/2018 14:18 PM

Cutting corners on consent

On November 29, after two weeks of contentious negotiations at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 196 countries agreed to...

Saturday 22/December/2018 15:42 PM

The Yellow Vests are here to stay

The terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, on December 11 came after a month in which the “Yellow Vest” protests in Paris and...