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COP30 stumbled to a close with a voluntary pledge so weak that it practically invites abuse. But the biggest losers were not the absent United States or the wavering European…
Capital and statecraft have always been connected. But since the dawn of modern capitalism, the world’s overall wealth and average human welfare have risen dramatically. So too has states’ access…
Just three years ago, and even after consecutive military coups in 2020 and 2021, Mali hosted a major United Nations peacekeeping operation, a European Union military training operation, a five-nation…
After two years of foot-dragging, Israel’s government recently voted to establish a commission of inquiry into the causes of Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Detractors were quick to argue…
BLANTYRE, Malawi—Earlier this year, McDonald Phiri crashed his bike near his home in southern Malawi. Laid up for months, the 49-year-old relied on an outreach worker to deliver the HIV…