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AMLO’s False Promises

NEW YORK – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reached the beginning of the end. AMLO, as he is widely known, was inaugurated on December 1, 2018, having promised to improve Mexico’s economy, reduce poverty and inequality, and tackle corruption and violence, all while strengthening the country’s infant democracy, and will

Reforming the WTO for a greener future

Dealing with climate change is essential to achieving sustainable global development and poverty reduction, and international trade plays an important

The Democrats’ Democratic Dividend

CHICAGO – Last month’s midterm elections in the United States were surprising in more ways than one. The Democrats’ unexpectedly

Russia grinds on in eastern Ukraine; Bakhmut ‘destroyed’

Russian forces have “destroyed” the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, while Ukraine’s military on Saturday reported

The Global Climate-Finance Challenge

LONDON – The dust has now settled after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, but there are

China After Zero-COVID

BEIJING – China’s ability to execute major policies is always impressive, and the 180-degree turn on the zero-COVID strategy that

G-7 joins EU on $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil

The Group of Seven nations and Australia joined the European Union on Friday in adopting a $60-per-barrel price cap on

No Easy Exit from Zero-COVID

– S. Alex Yang and Angela Huyue Zhang HONG KONG – Following a deadly fire in a residential building in

Book Review: “Egypt Until Democracy”

Globalization, rapid growth of science and technology and, most importantly, communication have challenged and even transformed all the moral and

UN climate deal: Calamity cash, but no new emissions cuts

For the first time, the nations of the world decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is