Biden has agreed to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change when he becomes president, putting the agreement’s 1.5 degree Celsius limit into what Climate Action Tracker calls “within striking distance.” But what does this mean? Bringing the agreement’s...
This is a summary of conversations with individuals in Taiwan and their impressions of the response to Biden’s election. The U.S. elections have resulted in the defeat of Trump and a victory for Biden. While many in the U.S. and around the world feel a sense of...
The jobs and wages lost in the COVID recession have put millions of people behind on their rent, even those who have been able to find jobs again. And now it’s becoming clear that government promises to suspend evictions until the end of the year aren’t stopping...
Since August, hundreds of thousands have protested the authoritarian rule of Aleksandr Lukashenko in Belarus. On October 26, the main opposition leader, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya called for a general strike to force Lukashenko out. One hundred thousand workers and...
Have you ever looked at a map of red and blue states as presidential votes are counted, and asked, “Hmmm, why aren’t we just counting votes”? You may know that the U.S. Constitution is still mostly the same as when it was written in the 1780s and 1790s. Yes, some...
