“If Build Back Better fails in its entirety, it is very hard to see how the United States achieves the climate goals that the Biden administration pledged we would achieve by 2030." - Jason Bordoff

José Antonio Ocampo says that combating climate change is an economic and an equity problem. Countries need to create specific commitments and compliance measures to radically change the sources of energy production and its use.

Lincoln Mitchell thinks that Joe Biden should wield more presidential power and make it clear to Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin that tanking the Build Back Better bill could preclude favorable treatment from the White House and endanger important projects in their states.

Joseph Stiglitz says that Germany’s new chancellor Olaf Scholz should support a temporary exemption of WTO intellectual property rules so that Covid-19 vaccines can be produced in and for developing countries to counter the spread of the virus.

Robert Jervis pushed policymakers to see the world’s complexity. Keren Yarhi-Milo and others remember their late colleague.

A faculty member for more than four decades, the late scholar was immensely influential in redefining the field of international relations and national security.

"With an ongoing global pandemic and a ravaging climate crisis, we enter this decisive decade in a perfect storm," Haoliang Xu MIA '94 writes on the ‘how’ of SDG implementation in the uncertainty brought by COVID-19.

Jeffrey Sachs talks to Xinhua News about China's WTO accession on its 20th anniversary.