By the end of the 26th U.N. Climate Conference, it quickly became clear that Africa had gained very little. Louise Fox explains why African youth stand to lose the most and calls for climate change adaptation policies and investments today to prevent the worst outcomes.
This week, President Joe Biden signed the first comprehensive infrastructure bill in a generation into law. Ellory Monks argues that while the legislation is ambitious, it does not do enough to invest in modernizing workforce development systems and procurement techniques—which are essential to enacting transformative infrastructure projects.
“Many of Germany’s allies are mystified at a navel-gazing debate that appears remote from reality and tone-deaf towards their concerns. Given the tensions with Russia, Belarus, and China, they contend, this is no moment for a key NATO member to distance itself from the alliance’s nuclear deterrence strategy,” writes Constanze Stelzenmüller.
With numerous rule rollbacks related to the environment, labor, telecom, and beyond, deregulation was a key pillar of the Trump administration's policy agenda. The Biden administration has taken a different approach, but there is still plenty to monitor.
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