Will US take global environmental lead by cutting coal emissions?
The United States’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its already known plan to cut power plant carbon emissions in the US by 2030, on Monday. The most significant environmental move made...
View ArticleAre we worrying too much about global inequality or not enough?
The publication of French economist Thomas Piketty’s nearly 700 page book on the state of global wealth marked a peak moment for the growing discussion on inequality. Piketty warns that inequality has...
View ArticleHow would we report on the Ferguson report if it happened in another country?
I am stealing a page from Slate’s Joshua Keating, who has a series of stories about events in the United States written as if they happened elsewhere and were reported by U.S. media. In doing so, the...
View ArticleNo lawyer will take up case against Rwanda’s Kagame
A Rwandan opposition political party does not want President Paul Kagame to stand for an unconstitutional third term. To prevent him and the supportive legislature from changing the national...
View ArticleFour takeaways from the Global Citizen Festival
This is a part of a series of dispatches correspondent Tom Murphy is writing from New York during the U.N. General Assembly and all the related events. (New York) A concert in Central Park on Saturday...
View ArticleHow would we report on Scott Walker if he were a leader in another country?
I am again stealing a page from Slate’s Joshua Keating, who has a series of stories about events in the United States “using the tropes and tone normally employed by the American media to describe...
View ArticleUgandan president dampens opposition, wins re-election
In a surprise to absolutely nobody, Uganda’s leader for nearly 30 years won last week’s presidential election. Yoweri Museveni fended off challenger Kizza Besigye by taking more that 60 percent of the...
View ArticleA chat with Mexican author and journalist Juan Villoro
For this Humanosphere podcast, we talk with Mexican author and journalist Juan Villoro, who is noted for his wide-ranging interests from soccer (futbol!), pop music and Mayan culture to children’s...
View ArticleU.S. presidential campaign in the Humanosphere #4: On the brink of a female...
This is the fourth story in a running series of dispatches providing analysis on issues that come up in the U.S. presidential primaries and election that are relevant to the Humanosphere. Global...
View ArticleSenate opponents join forces to prevent U.S. arms sales to Saudis
Sens. Al Franken, D-Minn., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., do not see eye to eye on most issues. However, the two agree that the U.S. should not be selling arms to Saudi Arabia. A joint resolution introduced by...
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