President Donald Trump’s recent election defeat is a necessary step toward restoring sanity to American politics. But it is only the first of many steps that will be required to convince the world that the US no longer poses a threat to itself or others.
explains why President-elect Joe Biden cannot restore US global leadership and would be wrong to try.
Insider InterviewOct 16, 2020Alexei Navalny interviewed by Tikhon Dzyadko
about an attempted murder and cover-up with Russian President Vladimir Putin's fingerprints all over it.
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Special Edition Magazine, Fall 2020: The Green Recovery
The Green Recovery focuses on what comes next, with an emphasis on biodiversity, energy, public investments, and financial and corporate governance. The recovery phase will bring far-reaching opportunities to accelerate the transition to renewable energies, reorient business and finance toward sustainable development, and reconsider our relationship with the planet. But it will also open a window for populists, nationalists, and others to exploit public anxieties and pursue zero-sum politics. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that averting the worst-case climate scenario will depend entirely on the actions taken (or not taken) in the 2020s. The stakes could not be higher.
