“Things can only get better” felt like the anthem for the 1990s. Released in 1993, four years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the song was the perfect soundtrack for a decade in which apartheid ended, democracy came to eastern Europe, peace came to Northern Ireland and the Oslo accords promised an end to...
Putin’s friends Many governments have slapped punishing sanctions on Russia, stopping or severely limiting trade with the now essentially pariah state. Yet several nations continue to do business with and in Russia, indirectly funding Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Read on as we reveal the countries carrying on as usual, or even strengthening their ties. All dollar amounts in US...
The writer is director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government At the foot of the Eqi Glacier in Greenland in June, I watched ice formed thousands of years ago drop into the warming ocean. With this vivid depiction of climate change in my mind, I was...