By Laura Tyson and Daniel Weiss BERKELEY – As we mark the 52nd Earth Day, we must recognize that achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 will require significant investment to finance the necessary economic and social transitions.
By Robert Skidelsky LONDON – Through persuasion, exhortation, legal processes, economic pressure, and sometimes military force, American foreign policy asserts the United States’ view about how the world should be run.
By Jorge G. Castañeda MEXICO CITY – If former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reclaims the post in this October’s election (as now seems likely), and if Colombia’s leftist presidential candidate, Gustavo Petro, wins in May, their victories would build on a wave that began with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s victory in 2018.
By Abe Shinzō TOKYO – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reminded many people of the fraught relationship between China and Taiwan.
By Daniel J. Arbess NEW YORK – Russian climate envoy Anatoly Chubais’s decision last week to resign from the government and leave Russia may turn out to be highly significant.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva VIENNA – A grim old Soviet joke probably rings far too true to Ukrainians today.
By Richard Haass NEW YORK – It is one month into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – On March 7, Russia stated three aims for its invasion of Ukraine: official Ukrainian neutrality, recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, and recognition of the independence of pro-Russian separatist regions in Luhansk and Donetsk.
By Michael Ignatieff VIENNA – We know what Russian President Vladimir Putin wants in Ukraine: to wipe the country off the map.
By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – The world has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with sanctions, travel bans, and deliveries of humanitarian and military aid, all of which have been stepped up as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war crimes claim more lives every day.
What could make the situation in Ukraine more ripe for a peaceful resolution?
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.
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