Month: September 2022

Ahead of this weekend’s election, Italian voters have a problem: separating the truth from the lies they read online. Despite concerns that Russia will try to meddle in the campaign, Italian politicians and social media influencers have so far played the greatest role in spreading election-related online falsehoods, based on an analysis by Digital Bridge, […]

Hansjörg Wyss is a Swiss businessman and philanthropist, and the co-owner of Chelsea FC. Solving the crisis facing nature is daunting. Over the next few months, we will see whether governments are truly up to the task. I, for one, am optimistic that we will meet the challenge, but leaders must actually commit to accelerating […]

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. He covered the conflict in Donbas in 2014 and 2015 and reported from Ukraine this winter. Not since former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s soldiers fled Kuwait in 1990 has the world seen a supposedly powerful army turn tail in the grip of such panic, abandoning weapons and […]

Janos Pasztor is the executive director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G). At the U.N. General Assembly, world leaders will likely spare no words in calling for action on climate change. However, few words are as consequential — and unlikely to be uttered — as one: “overshoot.” Overshoot is code for exceeding the Paris […]

VIENNA — Ukrainian forces have recently pushed Russian troops back across thousands of square miles in northeastern Ukraine, liberating dozens of towns and cities from Russian rule. But for millions of Ukrainians living in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk, the reality of life under Russian proxy rule is grim. And for Ukrainians suspected of collaborating with […]