With rising temperatures, worsening droughts, and extreme storms and floods, climate change will uproot millions of Americans and spur large population migrations.
The past political consequences of migration have been both immense and unpredictable, but we can look to history for some valuable lessons on what may come. As the United States prepares for a new era of mass internal migration, Vanessa Williamson explains what the Great Migration of the 20th century can teach us about political movements, alliances of convenience, coalition building, and more.
America’s “terrible” credit card system. “Until legislators are willing to change a system that showers tax-free rewards on the upper middle class, the cash register will continue to exacerbate the wealth gap and help big business get even bigger,” writes Aaron Klein in the New York Times.
Preventing democratic backsliding in the Sahel. In a Foresight Africa viewpoint, J. Peter Pham provides context around democratic decline in the Sahel region of Africa. Building state legitimacy is an undertaking that requires time and commitment, both of the citizens involved and of their friends abroad, he argues.
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