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Tsunami of Crises

The world really is too much with us.  After years of peace, prosperity and progress toward the Global Goals, challenges and setbacks are following one after another now. Mark...

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The World is Already a Better Place

Feeling distraught about the state of the world? This episode is for you. It turns out your pessimism is not evenly shared. Younger people, particularly younger people in the...

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The Virus is Winning

The rich world placed a big bet on vaccines. But the flaw in that gamble became clear as a new variant spreads. The vaccine was never enough to stop...

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The Covid Gamble That Came Up Short

The rich world placed a big bet on vaccines. But the flaw in that gamble became clear as a new variant spreads. The vaccine was never enough to stop...

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The Climate Summit Was Better Than You Think

Everyone seemed disappointed with the Glasgow climate summit. But maybe it was not as bad as it looked? That is the provocative insight of Isabel Hilton, an expert on...

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COVID Chaos

The World Health Organization’s emergency committee on Covid-19 says that “analysis of the present situation and forecasting models indicate that the pandemic is far from finished.”  To curtail it,...

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Getting the Global Goals Back on Track

In this episode, taped live at the end of the United Nation’s General Assembly meeting, three experts face the challenge of making up ground lost to the pandemic. Measures...

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The Good News about the Bad News about the Global Goals

The pandemic and economic collapse dealt a severe blow to the progress that was being made toward eradicating extreme poverty, improving health and education, and reducing hunger and inequity....

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Disabilities and the Pandemic

By Daria Valova-Lynch Policy only moves when people put their bodies on the line. While many Britons and Americans are rejoicing at life returning to some kind of “normalcy”...

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Now, The Climate Comes For Us

Do you think Climate Change is something that will happen in the future? Or something that will happen somewhere else? Well, as Co-hosts Claudia Romo Edelman and Edie Lush,...

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