"Intellectual Property must serve the global good, rather than humanity serving the interests of a few private companies. And in the case of COVID-19, the global good is not in doubt: rapid worldwide…
"At current rates, about 20% of children in Sub-Saharan Africa will still be excluded from schooling in 2030. But, besides seeking to expand access to education, policymakers should contextualize,…
"Transparency is the missing ingredient in large media platforms today, with everyone in the dark about how proprietary algorithms sort people and prioritize messages. This should not lead us to…
“Addressing within-country inequality may be the political imperative of the moment. But tackling vastly greater cross-country disparities – especially those affecting the two-thirds of humanity…
The authors “measured political isolation by looking at each voter’s thousand closest neighbors. For about one in five Republicans, and two in five Democrats, less than a quarter of their neighbors…
“By trafficking in images of death, suffering, and private acts of mourning, Western media coverage of the COVID-19 crisis in India has broken one of the first rules of journalism. And while a…
“While many experts believe that the reason adolescents are struggling today is that they’re away from friends and school, a closer look at the research reveals...one of the biggest threats to the…
“America’s democracy is still in real danger" and is v"closer to a political civil war — more than at any other time in our modern history. Today’s seeming political calm is actually resting on a…
The author’s meeting with a friend includes with the idea that “‘America might be done with Afghanistan, but Afghanistan isn’t done with America.’ In his view, my lunch at the ambassador’s residence…
“The world desperately needs the United States and China to collaborate in addressing climate change, but no one should harbor any illusions. The best to be hoped for is that the two superpowers are…
