Salvaging COP28

By Gordon Brown Special to The Times Kuwait The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai is less than a week away. But it has...

Middle East looking to China

Middle Eastern leaders seem to be in a race to gain favor with China. While the region buzzes with criticism of US policy, its...

Crafting a Diplomacy-First US Foreign Policy

United States President-elect Joe Biden has made it clear that diplomacy will be at the center of his administration’s foreign policy. Biden has pledged...

Two trends that could save Britain

As if conditions were not gloomy enough in the United Kingdom, the International Monetary Fund recently downgraded the country’s growth forecast even as it...

Regulating Speech in the New Public Square

Today, debates about public issues play out on social media, people receive their news via digital platforms, and politicians pitch their policies using these...

If Wealth Is Justified, so Is a Wealth Tax

Economic inequality has moved to the top of the political agenda in many countries, including free-market poster children like the United States and the...

What Difference Did 9/11 Make?

The terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001, were a horrific shock. Images of trapped victims leaping from the Twin Towers are indelible, and the...

Governing the Right to Food

When I was a child, my father, who had witnessed the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, told me how common ground...

American Soft Power in the Age of Trump

US President Donald Trump’s administration has shown little interest in public diplomacy. And yet public diplomacy — a government’s efforts to communicate directly with...

Social Democracy Beats Democratic Socialism

It used to be an unwritten rule of US politics that a socialist could never qualify for high national office. But now a self-proclaimed...

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