What is COVID-19 trying to tell us about our future?
By John Feffer COVID-19’s message is clear: we need to move forward, quickly, into a very different future. The coronavirus has not disappeared, as Donald Trump has promised. Nor has it been successfully contained, as Europe has discovered. A new global record for...
Is the war in Nagorno Karabakh part of Turkey’s neo-imperial ambitions?
By Maria Armoudian & Serj Tankian The ongoing war between Armenia and Azerbaijan is part of Turkey’s neo-imperial ambitions in the region and it must be stopped. The indigenous population of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) is being besieged by cluster bombs as they...
Climate anxiety: What is it and how can we cope?
By Peter Kalmus Climate change is 100% human-caused, so it’s 100% human-solvable. Don’t surrender to anxiety. Sometimes a wave of climate grief breaks over me. It happens unexpectedly, perhaps during a book talk, or while on the phone with a congressional...
Why uncertainty requires a new politics
By Ian Scoones & Andrew Stirling Governments haven’t found the magic formula for predicting the way people and diseases will interact with each other. Are you getting used to uncertainty? The feeling that things are uncertain – in financial markets, cities, the...
US and China are both raising the military stakes in the South China Sea
By Paul Rogers Perhaps the particular issue here lies not with direct risks in and around the South China Sea but back in Washington DC. In the run-up to November’s election, Donald Trump’s position looks increasingly fraught as his poll ratings slip. If he does...Subscribe by Email
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