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israel-hamas war
Apr. 2, 2024
‘The Drones Are Shooting at Anything That Moves’ in Gaza Facing famine, civilians search desperately for food under the threat of Israeli bombs.
By Alice Markham-Cantor
Why Did the U.S. Veto a Gaza Cease-fire Plan? Almost all of the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of a cease-fire proposal on Tuesday.
foreign interests
Jan. 26, 2024
How Will International Court of Justice’s Genocide-Case Ruling Impact Israel? The court stopped short of calling for a cease-fire in the conflict in Gaza, as requested by South Africa, which brought the case.
freedom cities
Mar. 9, 2023
Donald Trump Wants to Build a City “Freedom Cities” and the rise of conspiracy urbanism.
By Alissa Walker
life after warming
Nov. 8, 2022
How to Live in a Catastrophe In search of a way to think clearly about the planetary crisis.
By Elizabeth Weil
Madeleine Albright Has Died The first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State died on Wednesday at 84.
By Danielle Cohen
People of Color Are Having a Harder Time Getting Out of Ukraine Black and South Asian civilians report being sent to the back of lines, pulled off trains and buses, and stranded at the border.
By Danielle Cohen
design edit
Sept. 24, 2021
By Diana Budds
The U.N.’s Own Humanitarian Crisis Four years after promising to address its internal “scourge” of sexual misconduct, the multinational institution remains in conflict with itself.
By May Jeong
We’re Almost Out of Time A new report on the climate crisis issues “a code red for humanity.”
By Claire Lampen
just asking questions
Mar. 14, 2020
So There’s a Locust Plague Too? A U.N. locust forecaster explains the massive upsurge in desert locusts from the Horn of Africa to Pakistan — a distance of over 2,000 miles.
By Matt Stieb
climate change
Dec. 16, 2019
U.N. Climate Talks Fall Apart Over Potential of Trump 2020 Win One negotiator said that U.N. member nations were “waiting for the U.S. election” to determine how to move forward on vital emissions cutbacks.
By Matt Stieb
climate change
Nov. 26, 2019
‘Bleak’ U.N. Climate Study: World on Track for Up to 3.9 Degrees Warming by 2100 The report states emissions must decline 7.6 percent every year for the next decade to hit Paris goals. In 2018, U.S. emissions increased 2.7 percent.
By Matt Stieb
nikki haley
Nov. 12, 2019
Nikki Haley’s Skillful and Opportunistic MAGA Balancing Act Once again, Nikki Haley has figured out how to keep herself in the news as a potential Trump-Pence successor while declaring her Trumpist loyalties.
By Ed Kilgore
just asking questions
Oct. 2, 2019
‘Any Further Interference Is Likely to Be Disastrous’ “Gaia theory” scientist James Lovelock talks about nuclear power and his hope that AI might save the planet from catastrophic warming.
By David Wallace-Wells
just asking questions
Sept. 30, 2019
‘We Are Living in a Reality That Is Fundamentally Uncanny’ The Great Derangement author Amitav Ghosh describes just how totally we’ve failed to face up to the unfolding climate crisis.
By David Wallace-Wells
just asking questions
Sept. 26, 2019
‘The House Is Burning Down and We’re Just Sitting Around Discussing It’ Why Trust Science? author Naomi Oreskes on how much science it actually takes to move public opinion on climate change.
By David Wallace-Wells
world view
Sept. 25, 2019
Trump’s Low-Energy U.N. Speech Said More Than He Realized It’s hard to tell if Trump or his audience was more disinterested, but the text contained lessons about his team’s disturbing tactics and goals.
By Heather Hurlburt
climate change
Sept. 24, 2019
Trump Mocks Greta Thunberg for Emotional Climate Speech “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”
By Adam K. Raymond
just asking questions
Sept. 24, 2019
Do We Need to Abandon Growth to Save the Planet? A conversation with scientist Vaclav Smil, author of Growth — a dense treatise that covers everything from “microorganisms to megacities.”
By David Wallace-Wells
Greta Thunberg Just Gave the Best Speech of Her Life “How dare you?” she demanded of world leaders at the U.N. “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”
By Bridget Read
just asking questions
Sept. 23, 2019
The Necessity of Optimism in Fighting Climate Change A conversation with Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
By David Wallace-Wells
just asking questions
Sept. 19, 2019
Chris Hayes and Ali Velshi on How TV News Covers Climate Change A conversation with the hosts of MSNBC’s two-day Democratic-primary forum on climate change.
By David Wallace-Wells
just asking questions
Sept. 18, 2019
Naomi Klein on Reckoning With the Radical Realities of Climate Change The leftist intellectual talks the new political momentum on climate and whether we have to give up on consumption and growth to avert disaster.
By David Wallace-Wells
climate change
Aug. 29, 2019
Leaked Draft of U.N. Climate Report: Warming Oceans ‘Poised to Unleash Misery’ By “misery,” the IPCC draft means 280 million displaced people, flood damages magnified 1,000-fold, and the melting of emission-packed permafrost.
By Matt Stieb
climate change
May 6, 2019
Humanity Is About to Kill 1 Million Species in an Epic Murder-Suicide A new U.N. report finds that civilization is on the cusp of killing off the organisms that keep our soil fertile, seafood plentiful, and air clean.
By Eric Levitz
conflicts of interest
May 2, 2019
Trump’s Nominee for U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft Has Billion-Dollar Ties to Coal Craft once expressed climate denialism and her husband is a coal baron. She may soon represent the U.S. at the key venue for combating climate change.
By Matt Stieb
immigration
Feb. 17, 2019
By Chas Danner
sustainable fashion
Feb. 4, 2019
Fashion Week in a Time of Climate Change Insiders gathered for a panel on sustainable fashion at the U.N.
By Sarah Spellings
united nations
Nov. 1, 2018
Trump Eyes Former Fox & Friends Host for U.N. Ambassador The president has reportedly offered Nikki Haley’s old gig to former Fox News anchor, and current State Department spokesperson, Heather Nauert.
By Eric Levitz
Nikki Haley’s Rare Feat: She Did It Her Way, Not Trump’s Despite significant foreign policy differences in the GOP, she managed to avoid alienating either faction — or her notoriously volatile boss.
By Heather Hurlburt
just asking questions
Oct. 10, 2018
By Lisa Miller
Nikki Haley to Resign As Ambassador to the United Nations It’s an oddly timed development for a rising political star.
By Ed Kilgore
climate change
Oct. 8, 2018
U.N. Climate Report: ‘Unprecedented Changes’ Needed to Avert Catastrophe Avoiding disaster will require changes with “no documented historic precedent.”
By Adam K. Raymond
The U.S. Just Made Life Harder on LGBT Diplomats and U.N. Staff In a change, same-sex partners will now only be granted visas if they’re married.
By Adam K. Raymond
2018 midterms
Sept. 27, 2018
Is Trump Preparing to Blame GOP Midterm Losses on Chinese Meddling? Trump accused China of seeking to help Democrats in November as retaliation for his trade policies. It’s possible, but he offered no real evidence.
By Jonah Shepp
foreign policy
Sept. 25, 2018
Bolton Warns Iran There ‘Will Be Hell to Pay’ In a bellicose speech in New York on the same day as Trump’s unilateralist address to the U.N., Bolton expressed his hatred of diplomacy.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 25, 2018
Trump Just Can’t Stop Himself From Sliming Kavanaugh’s Accusers At the U.N., the president attacks both Christine Ford and Deborah Ramirez, either going off message or revealing a scorched-earth strategy.
By Ed Kilgore
foreign policy
Sept. 25, 2018
The President Treats the U.N. to a Good Old-Fashioned Trump Rally The president’s nationalist speech was a list of things that the United States does and doesn’t see as threatening.
By Heather Hurlburt
foreign policy
Sept. 24, 2018
Donald Trump Is Going to Try a Tricky Balancing Act at the United Nations Trump wants to mount a defense of American sovereignty to please his base while selling allies on shared sacrifice.
By Heather Hurlburt
The Plan to Eliminate Trans Fats Once and for All The World Health Organization has unveiled a new idea to help the world cook healthier food.
By Clint Rainey
U.N. Condemns Trump’s Jerusalem Decision Despite Threats From U.S. The Trump administration has threatened to retaliate against nations that voted for the resolution.
By Adam K. Raymond
Nikki Haley Says Iran Is Violating U.N. Rules and These Missile Parts Prove It The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations held a press conference with “indisputable” proof of Iran’s violations.
By Adam K. Raymond
Convicted War Criminal Dies After Drinking Poison in U.N. Courtroom at the Hague “What I drank was poison,” he said after his 20-year prison sentence was upheld.
By Adam K. Raymond
foreign policy
Aug. 5, 2017
U.N. Security Council Approves New Sanctions on North Korea The U.S.-drafted resolution, which received unanimous support, is the first international measure taken against Pyongyang since Trump took office.
By Chas Danner
U.N. Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Approved by Nations That Don’t Have Nukes The nine nations that possess nuclear weapons did not participate in the treaty negotiations.
By Adam K. Raymond
‘We’re Only Getting Started’: Nikki Haley Celebrates Cuts to U.N. Peacekeeping The U.N. will spend $600 million fewer dollars on peacekeeping in the next year and Haley is thrilled.
By Adam K. Raymond
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