Donald Trump’s presidency in the United States has turned mining – and the coal industry in particular – into a political cause célèbre over the last year. In June, during his first White House cabine ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-14
With the United Nations’ climate change conference underway in Bonn, Germany, rising global temperatures are once again at the top of the world’s agenda. But why care about the increase in temperature ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-13
It has been one year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and America’s democratic institutions are clearly under strain. A mere 20 percent of Americans now trust the federal ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-13
In early October, shortly after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that his company could, given the opportunity, rebuild the island’s electrical grid us ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-10
Imagine a country where some 90 percent of the population is covered by health insurance, more than 90 percent of those with HIV are on a consistent drug regime, and 93 percent of children are vaccina ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-09
The transatlantic alliance – which for decades has underpinned global stability, fortified democracy, and safeguarded the West as we know it – is under severe strain, and risks terminal decline. US Pr ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-09
Solutions to the climate crisis are often associated with big conferences, and the next two weeks will no doubt bring many "answers". Some 20,000 delegates have now descended on Bonn, Germany, for the ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-08
After multiple failed attempts to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), US President Donald Trump’s administration now hopes to achieve its first legislative victory with a ma ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-07
US President Donald Trump is spending nearly two weeks in Asia, visiting Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Putting China at the center of the trip makes sense, because it consti ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-07
I have always been a profound admirer of Spanish democracy, but especially since February 23, 1981. On that dramatic day, Colonel Antonio Tejero attempted a coup d’état against the young democratic re ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-03
With the appointment of Jerome Powell as the next chair of the Federal Reserve Board, US President Donald Trump has made perhaps the most important single decision of his presidency. It is a sane and ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-03
The end of the fossil-fuel era is on the horizon. With renewables like solar and wind consistently outperforming expectations, growth in electric vehicles far exceeding projections, and governments wo ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-02
President Emmanuel Macron's election in France and the likely continuation of Angela Merkel's chancellorship in Germany are dramatically at odds with developments in the rest of Europe, which has beco ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-02
US President Donald Trump has decided not to certify that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement constraining Iran’s nuclear weapons prog ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-01
Cities, the American-Canadian author Jane Jacobs once observed, are engines for national prosperity and economic growth. But in their current form, modern cities are also catalysts of inequality and e ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-30
US President Donald Trump’s administration is expected, by Nov. 2, to announce its choice, subject to Senate approval, to succeed Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve Board in February 2018. T ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-27
Macroeconomic data from the world’s advanced economies can be mystifying when viewed in isolation. But when analyzed collectively, the data reveal a troubling truth: without changes to how wealth is g ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-26
At the start of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) this month, President Xi Jinping unveiled his “two-stage development plan” to turn China into a “modern socialist state ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-26
Recent disease outbreaks, like Ebola and Zika, have demonstrated the need to anticipate pandemics and contain them before they emerge. But the sheer diversity, resilience, and transmissibility of dead ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-24
The Earth today is more than 1°C hotter than it was in pre-industrial times, and the terrible symptoms of its fever are already showing. This year alone, back-to-back hurricanes have devastated Caribb ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-24
