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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 6, 2020
Technology and Innovation
2019: The Beginning of the End of the Open Internet Era
In the next decade, China will establish a separate root system for their share of the internet. This will mark the end of the global internet era. When the root splits, the United States and its all…
October 3, 2019
Food and Water Security
Down the Hunger Spiral: Pathways to the Disintegration of the Global Food System
For a precarious global agricultural system with powerful feedback loops, business as usual means widespread hunger and embedded systemic risk.
December 26, 2017
Americas
Populism Looms Over Latin America's Election Year
In 2018, nearly two out of every three Latin Americans will head to the polls to elect new leaders, and the fight against corruption will be high on their agenda. The surge to throw the bums out coul…
February 24, 2017
Asia
A Lack of Oversight---Dating Back Decades
Between 1961 and 1973, in a civil war in the tiny Southeast Asian country of Laos, the Central Intelligence Agency oversaw a massive paramilitary operation. CIA operatives, working with the U.S. emba…
January 6, 2017
China
Chinese Ivory, Google in India, Philippine Jailbreak, and More
Rachel Brown, Sherry Cho, Lorand Laskai, Gabriella Meltzer, and Gabriel Walker look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. The world reacts to China’s ivory ban. Following a resolution at the Conve…
