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On 3 April 2022, Victor Orbán won his fourth straight election victory in Hungary. On 9 May, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, the son of a former dictator of the Philippines followed President Duterte, with Duterte’s daughter as Vice President, to victory in the Philippines. Orbán doesn’t kill people, Duterte killed many, and so did the […]
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In 2010, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing water and sanitation as human rights, with the support of more than 120 countries. This remarkable political stance opened space for a set of interpretations on the meaning of these rights and on how to translate this framework into practical actions. These rights are often […]
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During the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Gutteres, went to Ukraine. Apart from capital city, Kyiv, Gutteres visited the town of Bucha which had been retaken by Ukranian troops only two weeks before. After the Russian soldiers had left Bucha, dozens of dead bodies of civilians were […]
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Moving towards a low-carbon economy will require integrating massive quantities of renewable power into the electricity grid. This transition will create many challenges as existing electricity market institutions created for conventional fossil fuel-fired power plants must adapt to renewable resources. Here we discuss one of these challenges: accounting for renewable sources of power in electricity […]
Read MoreThe threat of severe anthropogenic harm to the environment continues to grow year-on-year. Military attacks, illegal resource extraction, exploiting endangered species, toxic dumping, and rampant deforestation are just some of the menaces facing the natural world. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has signaled its intent to prosecute the most serious incidents of environmental destruction. Experts […]
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We are witnessing an emergence of network-based commercial and utility driven platforms which by some have been announced to be the business model of the 21st century. Innovative business models, such as Decentralized Autonomous Companies (DACs) and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), are operated on decentralized ledger technology (DLT), which hold the merit of decentralization amongst […]
Read MoreThroughout world history, people have marshaled a wide variety of tools to forge new political orders. Some relied on the power of the gun, summoning soldiers and mercenaries to coerce compliance.1 Others resorted to the power of bureaucracy, wielding civil servants to regulate and reshape society.2 Yet increasingly, policymakers are turning to the power of […]
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Court-packing is in the air in the United States. Having decisively lost any hope of getting the current Supreme Court to rule in their favor, liberals today have begun to entertain ideas about Court reform that would have seemed fanciful a decade ago. We’ve been here before. In the mid-1930s the Supreme Court issued a […]
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