Global North Must Follow the Global South’s Lead

By Gordon Brown Special to The Times Kuwiat With her ambitious Bridgetown Agenda to reform the international financial architecture, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has...

Squandering the Techno-Revolution

Public discussion of the effects of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) often focuses on the productivity benefits for companies and the economy, on the...

Inequality and its Discontents

Inequality has been seizing ever more of the public’s attention in recent years, reflected everywhere from papal encyclicals and economic tomes by French socialists...

Rays of Hope in the Climate Struggle

We have grown accustomed to grim climate news. Despite scientists’ warnings and communities’ protests, catastrophic floods, record-breaking heat waves, devastating wildfires, and famine-inducing droughts...

Not Destined for War

Joseph S. Nye The great-power competition between the United States and China is a defining feature of the first part of this century, but there...

Bad News for the World’s Poorest

The global economic mood is souring. At their meeting in Fukuoka, Japan, earlier this month, G20 finance ministers and central bank governors warned that...

Saving Generation COVID

The oft-repeated idea that COVID-19 is “the great equalizer” is a myth. There is no equality of suffering or equality of sacrifice during a...

Global Health, the Best Investment We Can Make

No one could have predicted the extent to which COVID-19 would erode decades of progress in global public health. And the world is still...

Climate Elephants in the Room

Now that the falsehoods and obfuscation of climate denialism have finally been silenced, addressing climate change has become the world’s top priority. But time...

From Climate Pledges to Climate Action

By Christopher Grundler and Ajay Mathur Special to The Times Kuwait The Paris climate agreement, concluded in 2015, has been instrumental in rallying countries around the...

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