‘Loss and Damage’ Was the Focus of COP27. Don’t Expect Climate Finance To Change Anytime Soon!
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, colloquially known as COP27, took place between November 6 and November 18, 2022....
Opinion
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Perspective | Being Ethnically Ambiguous in a Race-Fueled America
No one I’ve met has ever been able to guess my race correctly. Not that it’s a competition, or that...
Antisemitism at NYU and Jewish Identity in Antisemitic Times
In 2022, antisemitism spiked throughout the country; from Ye’s tweet-storm about "going death-con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE" to Trump’s dinner...
China, Money Can’t Buy You Love
The American political scientist Joseph Nye once said: "A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because...
China’s Political Awakening Amidst Zero-COVID
For three years, the CCP’s zero-COVID policy in the aftermath of the Wuhan outbreak has included mass lockdowns, excessive testings,...
Largest Climate Bill in U.S. History Is a Start, but Is It Enough?
(NEW YORK) – Met with an enthusiastic round of applause and cheers, US President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction...
Perspective | My Mother Ran an Illegal Kindergarten in Iran
Between the ages of seven and thirteen, I lived in an illegal kindergarten in Tehran, Iran. I know what you’re...
Jeff Bezos: Billionaire, Philanthropist, Greenwasher?
The 27th UN Conference on Climate Change, COP27, saw a pronouncement from French President Emmanuel Macron that the Bezos Earth...
Power Politics in the Arctic: China and India
The melting of the glaciers is changing geopolitical arrangements. In the Arctic, global warming is opening opportunities for the allocation...
China’s Party Congress and the End of Political Competition
When the Chinese Communist Party’s National Congress concludes, it is a ripe time for many observers of Chinese politics to...
