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Three days ago, a conservative American journalist sent me these Qs for a story on South Africa: 1. Did reparations bring healing? 2. Does reverse racism correct racism? 3. Does playing victim advance mental health? 4. Does identity politics produce competent businessmen?

We've released the Berkeley Earth temperature update for January 2025. It was the warmest January on record at 1.64C above preindustrial levels, and 0.09°C above the prior record set in 2024.

I interviewed experts in Mexico about AMLO & Sheinbaum’s comms strategy, and one thing stood out: they command attention, while Biden and Harris ran from it. Daily pressers, populism, direct engagement, culture—why aren’t Democrats doing this? thenation.com/article/world/…

Translators from South Asian languages into English! The @ArmorySV Prize for South Asian Lit in Translation for South Asian Literature in Translation—any unpublished book-length work of narrative prose, fiction, or nonfiction—is open. Submit soon. armorysv.com/translation-pr…

“The tricky thing with any president is they’re judged more for what they got done than what they proposed.” Listen to Jason Furman on why Biden’s economic policy fell short: foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/why-b…

"I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."

Researchers have long debated over whether the language we speak shapes how we perceive the world. Now that some 1.5 billion people speak the same language, English, this question has taken on a new urgency. nyer.cm/pFyPmQq

The new issue of Foreign Affairs is out foreignaffairs.com/issues/2025/10… and it includes the debut of two wonderful additions to our roster of regular reviewers: Pratap Bhanu Mehta on books about South Asia and Elizabeth Economy on books about East Asia. Ken Opalo starts next issue on books on Africa.

My latest Trump and the end of the geopolitical ‘West’ Free to read. wapo.st/41DwVk5

"Washington’s bid for Greenland is just the opening chapter of a new global competition for territory... as major powers try to position themselves for success in a warming world." Michael Albertus in Foreign Affairs foreignaffairs.com/canada/coming-…

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

A research scientist at a major university who voted for Trump:

One of the points I make in this piece: "By forcing the Istanbul mayor out of politics, the government has crossed the line that separates Turkey’s competitive authoritarian system from a full, Russian-style autocracy in which the president handpicks his opponents and elections

My latest Beyond the group chat fiasco, Trump’s Yemen strategy needs more scrutiny Free to read. wapo.st/423zU4m

I wrote about the origins of the "Global South," tracing its origins through Henry Maine's vision of indirect rule, Albert Sauvy's conception of three worlds, and Carl Oglesby's critique of U.S. imperial overreach. With shoutouts to DuBois, Douglass, Mamdani and Karuna Mantena.

What seems apparent from these soldiers' testimonies is that the IDF has mostly not been fighting Hamas in Gaza, but rather making it an uninhabitable kill zone. theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

The WorldView column is free to read: Pope Francis was a globalist in an age of nationalists wapo.st/44ywxVI

Rana Mitter argues that another China remains possible—a China “with which the West and the wider world can coexist, as long as both Beijing and Western governments avoid the policies that would make conflict inescapable.” foreignaffairs.com/china/once-and…

Germany is in crisis. GDP is down 10% from the pre-COVID trend, real wages are below 2019. Economic decline has fueled the rise of the extreme right threatening democracy. Change is overdue. But the new Chancellor‘s trickle-down economics won’t do the trick. New Foreign Affairs

Finance Minister Smotrich: We are destroying everything that remains in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us haaretz.com/israel-news/20…