Doomsday scenarios
Take the Train: France Moves to Ban Short-Haul Domestic Flights
In a bid to lower carbon consumption, France takes first step tpwards banning short-haul flights where rail alternatives exist.
How China Is Offering an Alternative to the IMF
China has been setting up currency swap lines with many countries. But is this an idea that is ahead of its time?
Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing
Climate change policy advocates have turned against market approcaches like carbon offsets, which have clearly failed. But what next?
Slaughter Central: The United States as a Mass-Killing Machine
Puttig some metrics on America's dedicated killing devices, from guns to armaments.
UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright on the Post-COVID World Economy: Out of the Frying Pan… Into the Fire?
Kozul-Wright warns that for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery, it is key to abandon policies that concentrate economic power and wealth
The War Nerd: Taiwan — The Thucydides Trapper Who Cried Woof
Parsing the war of words (and some deeds) between the US and China, particularly over Taiwan.
Life in a Remote Alaskan Community on the Front Line of Climate Change
Whittier, Alaska, copes with a pandemic and climate change, and confronts the daunting prospects of a Prince Williams Sound tsunami.
Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19
Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.
China and US: Stumbling into War?
China and the US are doing an awful lot of chest-poking, and if anything, it's getting worse under Biden. Could this sparring lead to war?
Preparing for a Wave of Non-Performing Loans: Are Banks at Risk?
On a aggregate basis, EU banks appear to have enough capital to weather even a bad Covid storm. A country-by-country look tells another story.