The word 'global' has become so frequently used in Western strategic debate that is has almost become background music. On one level, overuse robs it of resonance. But on another, it might be contributing to the conceptual and rhetorical overstretch that has led the...
I just finished reading Peter Piot's lively memoir No Time to Lose of his time as an epidemiologist helping identify the Ebola virus in the 1970s through to his service as the first director of...
Nicholas Kristof is writing about Congo again this morning:It’s easy to wonder how world leaders, journalists, religious figures and ordinary citizens looked the other way while six million Jews...