ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Development agencies fund green projects when people need jobs, food and energy. At the latest United Nations climate summit, developing nations slammed rich countries’ pledge to spend $300 billion annually on climate reparations as “crumbs.” The reality is much worse. Wealthy nations likely won’t conjure up $300 billion in new spending. Europe has been roiled …
If you’ve been reading post-election coverage, you’ve probably seen one of the big takeaways from the returns so far: In counties across the country, Kamala Harris won many fewer votes than President Biden did four years ago. With nearly all votes counted, she has about 74 million; Biden received 81 million four years ago. Donald …
Excessive spending has been a way of life for lawmakers in Washington for more than half a century. Since 1969 federal outlays have exceeded revenue every year, except briefly during the high-tech bubble of the late 1990s. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency will attempt to put an end to this fiscal profligacy. Both men …
Video about Myanmar oppression.
President Trump rightly points out that America did not engage in new wars during his first term in office. The world was indeed a more stable place before the Biden administration engineered a disastrous exit from Afghanistan. That catastrophe signaled weakness and incentivized the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as the Hamas attack on …
When U.S. President Joe Biden leaves office in January, the already faint prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may follow him out the door. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the very concept. Biden’s successor, President-elect Donald Trump, spent his first term actively promoting Netanyahu’s most expansionist dreams. Biden has so far …
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election could not have come at a better time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. More than 13 months since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack, Israel finds itself on a roll. Since the beginning of the year, Israel has assassinated much of the senior leadership of both …
Addressing problems like climate change and biodiversity loss calls for new thinking about how to mobilize the huge volume of financing that will be needed. International cooperation must be re-framed as a collective endeavor in which all countries benefit, contribute, and make investment decisions together. LONDON – Following the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Colombia …
This week in Say More, PS talks with Nicholas Agar, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and the author, most recently, of How to Think about Progress: A Skeptic’s Guide to Technology. Project Syndicate: You recently wrote that the “horizon bias” – the belief that what could happen will happen soon – “is most consequential in …
In the face of existential threats like climate change, we have a responsibility to improve our decision-making radically. Since cooperation has always been humanity’s superpower, the first step must be to rebuild a global culture of cooperation, underpinned by a shared, fact-based understanding of reality and trust in institutions. Read More