The end of the first half of 2022 marked one of the most complex times worldwide, from the war in Ukraine, global inflation, product shortages, and the apparent beginning of a worldwide recession period. Usually, in times of crisis, there are winners and losers, but …
Few have done as much to right the world’s wrongs as Irwin Cotler. As an international human rights lawyer, Irwin counselled political prisoners and activists, including anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela and Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky. He served the Canadian people as Member of Parliament for Mount …
Juan Villoro I met Uruguayan sociologist Gabriel Gatti in the fall of 2019 at Stanford University. It was my first contact with someone who, interestingly enough, is dedicated to studying the disappearance of people. We tuned in immediately because we were facing the same predicament. …
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers shares advice for the federal government on what to do next, as the country heads toward an inevitable recession. Lawrence Summers former Treasury Secretary, and President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, and professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center …
Antonio Navalón If one looks at today’s world’s shape and the situation of the countries that matter to us – starting with our own – and which affect us, one can come to a conclusion that seems obvious. In my opinion, a conclusion that provides …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The issue of migration was central to the conversations during the Summit of the Americas, held recently in Los Angeles, California, at the invitation of the President of the United States, Joe Biden. The agreements on the migratory phenomenon revolved around the …
Angel Jaramillo Torres* The great technological revolution integrating digital, biological, and physical systems could liquidate the only remaining political alternative: liberalism, given that Fascism and Communism were defeated, the former in 1945 and the latter in 1989. The coming decades will witness the end of …
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Luis Rubio Not by chance did Churchill coin the phrase that “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others tried.” for many decades, democracy was perceived as the ideal mechanism for processing the demands of society and, at the same …
Antonio Navalón It is written that men unleash hell by promising the heavens. History is full of excesses. Excesses are sometimes committed in the name of the gods, most of the time in what we humans deserve, and other times of hunger, justice, and equality. …