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Killing innocents in Israel and Gaza

By Peter Singer MELBOURNE – Last month, I was invited to join other Princeton University academics in viewing a compilation of raw footage from GoPro cameras carried by Hamas gunmen killing civilians in Israel on October 7.

Another Trump Presidency is the biggest threat to liberal democracy

By Chris Patten LONDON – It may shock some Americans to learn that democratic leaders and publics in Europe and elsewhere are more concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump winning their country’s 2024 presidential election than any other world event, including crucial elections in their own countries.

The West must face reality in Ukraine

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Harvard’s Graham Allison recently commented that, while China “is and will be the fiercest rival a ruling power has ever faced,” the current “demonization” of the country “confuses more than it clarifies.”

The Pillars of Green Wisdom

By Emmanuel Macron PARIS – The ongoing war in Ukraine and the fighting in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack must not distract the world from our collective priorities: reducing our CO2 emissions, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, preserving biodiversity, and fighting poverty and inequality.

Will Trump be on the ballot?

By Richard K. Sherwin NEW YORK – On March 5, 2024, the people of Colorado will vote in a “primary election” to determine which candidates can compete for the US presidency in November.

How to prevent an AI Apocalypse

By Robert Skidelsky LONDON – A little over a year ago, the San Francisco-based OpenAI released its chatbot, ChatGPT, triggering an artificial-intelligence gold rush and reigniting the age-old debate about the effects of automation on human welfare.

Putin’s dead-end

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM – In his annual press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear that he will be ready for a peace settlement with Ukraine only after he has achieved his goals, which have not changed since he launched his full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.

Universal values at bay

By Michael Ignatieff VIENNA – Seventy-five years ago, United Nations member states meeting in Paris adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Pulling the Amazon Back from the Brink

By Carlos Nobre and Marielos Peña-Claros SÃO PAULO/WAGENINGEN – This year has been the warmest on record, with climate change causing more frequent and intense heatwaves, wildfires, floods, and droughts.

Pulling the Amazon back from the brink

By Carlos Nobre and Marielos Peña-Claros SÃO PAULO/WAGENINGEN – This year has been the warmest on record, with climate change causing more frequent and intense heatwaves, wildfires, floods, and droughts.

What will it take to phase out fossil fuels?

By Nikki Reisch WASHINGTON, DC – Amid record heatwaves, intensifying and costly extreme weather events, and increasingly dire warnings that climate change is literally killing us, calls to abandon fossil fuels grow louder.

Does India have a hit list?

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – The United States has charged Indian national Nikhil Gupta, a 52-year-old narcotics and weapons trader, for plotting to murder a prominent Sikh separatist, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a US citizen, in New York City.

Petrostates must take the lead on climate finance

By Ban Ki-moon, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, and Laura Chinchilla Miranda LONDON – If the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai is to be judged a success, it will have to bring an urgently needed breakthrough on climate finance.

Putin’s killer patriotism

By Nina L. Khrushcheva SAINT PETERSBURG – In 2014, the former police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist from the liberal publication Novaya Gazeta.

Planning for a future beyond 1.5°C

By Simon Zadek GENEVA – The negotiators and activists preparing to attend the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai are grimly aware that there is no realistic chance of limiting global warming to 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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