The emerging order: Hegemony, stability, or anarchy?
The list of challenges affecting humanity at large is long and dangerous. If no one manages to impose some order in the international system, dangerous anarchy will be the outcome
Guns or butter?
Globally, nations spend nine times more on military endeavors than on combating hunger
When climate hits home
Climate change is becoming a systemic risk for the well-being of each of the planet’s inhabitants
Let’s talk about nuclear weapons
The decades during which these arms have not been used in armed conflicts represent a significant achievement for humanity
Lessons from Haiti and Cuba
Haitians would like to protest as the Cubans do, but they have no one to complain to. The lack of a state can be as devastating as its excess
Fat Leonard and Alex Saab’s interesting story
The U.S. government had in custody one of Maduro’s most notorious financial operators, while the Venezuelan strongman had in his jail the person who bribed a number of top military officers and their civilian accomplices
Which Milei will govern?
In Argentina there seem to be two presidents: one is the budding statesman with the reading glasses and the other is the ideologue who rants against the inability of the usual elites to create a better country
What is climate ‘sticker shock’?
The amount of money needed to address climate change is so large that it makes most people want to throw up their hands in defeat. But that’s a very bad idea
The stealthy recession
Across the globe, the institutions that defend democracy are in serious trouble
A world without precedents
Too many things are happening for the first time in the world. Change is faster, more global, and deeply surprising