By Chris Patten LONDON – The late George Shultz, US Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, was one of the finest public servants in recent American history.
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – In addition to a pandemic, this decade has already been overshadowed by the return of great power rivalries.
By Raghuram G. Rajan CHICAGO – With President Joe Biden’s administration recommitting the United States to the Paris climate agreement, and with a major United Nations climate-change conference (COP26) coming later this year, there is new hope for meaningful global policies to meet the challenge.
By Zhang Jun SHANGHAI – Last month, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee officially backed the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, which labels China a strategic competitor in a number of areas, including trade, technology, and security.
By Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel BERKELEY/CHICAGO – US President Joe Biden’s decision to back the call for waiving intellectual-property protections for COVID-19 vaccines reflects the extent of global pressure for universal vaccine access.
By Sanna Marin Sanna Marin is Prime Minister of Finland. HELSINKI – Climate change and biodiversity loss are the most pressing challenges of our time, so all responsible political leaders must offer long-term policies for confronting them effectively.
By Michael Spence MILAN – At this point in the pandemic, the key question is whether vaccine production can be ramped up quickly enough to allow most people to be vaccinated relatively soon.
NEW YORK – The only way to end the COVID-19 pandemic is to immunize enough people worldwide.
By Junaid Nabi BOSTON – When I was growing up in northern India’s Kashmir Valley, my physician father would often accompany me when I received my annual vaccinations.
By Victor Galaz STOCKHOLM – Silicon Valley leaders tell us that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring untold benefits.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for the rights on intellectual property (IP), including vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies to fight COVID-19.
By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – It is humbling when a columnist must retract his words soon after penning them.
By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS – Europe has discovered its moral Rubicon, the frontier beyond which commodification becomes intolerable.
By Sheldon Whitehouse and Hank Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – America’s courts are under siege from right-wing special interests.
By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – A flurry of assaults on freedom of the press in recent months has raised troubling questions about the state of India’s democracy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
By Karina Gould OTTAWA – It has been a year since the coronavirus pandemic started dominating headlines and our lives.
By Dani Rodrik Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F.
By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – During Joe Biden’s long career in the US Senate, he established a record of supporting human rights as a goal of American foreign policy.
By Adair Turner LONDON – Climate-policy discussions often focus on who will pay the cost of achieving a zero-carbon economy, with a particular focus on industrial sectors such as steel and cement.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – America is two cultures in one nation.
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