Politics & Foreign Affairs

Updated 5 May 2021. White House staffers felt there was little they could do after presidential orders made them lower...

April 2021 was a big month for climate summits, a new physics particle, the “muon”, was probably identified, a drone...

Editor’s Note: In fighting climate change and seeking to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, data plays a key role...

The last week in April was marked by the announcement of new, more ambitious climate goals from two of the...

After representatives from several EU governments came to unison last Wednesday on a new European climate deal, the stage was...

In a just-published “Global Trends” report subtitled "2040: A More Contested World", produced by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) for...

Liberal democracies are increasingly under fire from the world’s two autocratic giants, Russia and China, and policy responses from Western...

Editor’s Note: Ever since Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed to by the UN General Assembly in...

Scientific innovation is rapidly advancing in one direction; key elements of human behavioral response are going in the opposite direction....

In the race against climate change, increasing ambition overtime is necessary to avoid catastrophic warming. However, revised commitments from parties...

This time Erdogan, the Turkish dictator out to destroy any remnants of democracy in his country, has managed something of...

From the very early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, public, private and university researchers have been working to develop vaccines....