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When the news is wrong about my homeland
Oped, José González Vargas, Published on 11/12/2025
» The people of Venezuela conjure contradictory images, particularly for those living in the Global North. We're starved and oppressed masses under a totalitarian thumb, but also arrogant and pigheaded émigrés living in golden exile from Miami to Madrid. More recently, we are hordes of criminals, the scum of the Earth, flooding into the United States. Where's the truth? Where's the lie?
Extreme heat hits women hardest
Oped, Jess Ayers & Helen Mountford, Published on 24/09/2024
» Climate shocks -- from heat waves to droughts, floods to wildfires -- often hit women the hardest. New research published this May in The Lancet found that even in wealthy European countries, women died at nearly twice the rate as men from extreme heat over the last two decades. Marcos Quijal, one of the report's authors, said the findings "reflect a global trend".
What's really killing historical UK pubs
Business, Helen Chandler-Wilde of Bloomberg, Published on 28/08/2023
» When the Crown and Anchor pub in Llanidloes in mid-Wales was built, there was a different Charles on the throne, America was a British colony and France still had a king.
I dreamed about this moment for so long
Sports, Wyndham Clark, Published on 23/06/2023
» I just felt like my mom was watching over me during the final round [of the US Open on Sunday which he won]. She can't be here, and I miss her. I know she'd be proud of me. She's always been proud of me, regardless of how I'm doing or what I'm doing.
Race for Olympic qualification heats up
Sports, Helen Ross, Published on 20/01/2023
» Hollywood couldn't have scripted a better ending to the pandemic-delayed 2020 Olympic Games than Hideki Matsuyama battling Xander Schauffele down the stretch for gold medal at Japan's Kasumigaseki Country Club.
Time to act on conflict's impact
News, Helen Clark & Supachai Panitchpakdi, Published on 16/11/2022
» It is now nearly nine months since Russia invaded Ukraine. A war that should never have happened, and which Moscow hoped would be over in a matter of days, threatens to drag on endlessly. Estimates of military and civilian deaths vary wildly but are in the tens of thousands on each side. Over thirteen million Ukrainians have been displaced, about half of them across Europe and the other half internally. There has been inestimable damage to infrastructure and property. The approaching winter threatens to multiply misery many times over. As if the human suffering already experienced is not enough, the nightmarish spectre of the use of nuclear weapons lurks in the background.
A prescription for healthier policy
Oped, Kemi Adeosun, José Antonio González Anaya and Trevor Manuel, Published on 06/09/2022
» A healthy population is both a cause and a result of economic growth and development. But achieving both today requires finance ministers to leave their comfort zones.
EU carbon tax hurts poorer states
News, Miriam González Durántez & Calli Obern, Published on 27/06/2022
» In July 2021, the European Commission did something that no other major governing body had ever attempted: It tied trade policy to climate policy. Reaching the European Union's goal of cutting net greenhouse-gas emissions by 55% by 2030 will require the EU to reduce emissions both at home and beyond its borders.
Asia needs to expand care work migration
Asia focus, Helen Dempster, Published on 27/06/2022
» Asia needs millions more long-term care workers to look after its ageing population. A new report, published by the Center for Global Development (CGD), argues that only by expanding migration can this target be met, and outlines how this can be done.
Kofi Annan's lessons in global leadership
Oped, Nane Annan, Mark Malloch-Brown, Comfort Ero, Susana Malcorra and Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, Published on 09/06/2022
» The world is facing a set of acute crises without recent parallel: a war in Europe that could escalate into a nuclear conflict, skyrocketing food prices that are hitting the poor the hardest, the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate emergency. We need principled statesmen and women to forge bold, morally consistent responses to these and other global problems. Sadly, such leaders are in short supply.