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Bill de Blasio for Mayor

Throughout American history, when Washington has stumbled, New York has led with progressive reforms. It goes with the territory. Teddy Roosevelt ushered in major progressive era reforms first as police commissioner and NY governor. Franklin Roosevelt ushered in the New Deal first as governor of NY. In an economy rife with inequality and inaction in [...]

New goals in sight to reduce poverty and hunger

By John Maurice Efforts to meet the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals have reduced poverty and hunger. A new set of goals to complete the work is about to be unveiled. John Maurice reports. Poverty has stalked the world throughout the ages, bearing out the Bible’s ominous pronouncement that “there will always be poor [...]

MDGs and the Accelerated Decline of Poverty and Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

In a recent paper, Howard Friedman (2013) asks whether the Millennium Development Goals accelerated progress in the reduction of poverty. [1]  With respect to Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the world’s poorest region, the answer is certainly yes.  It is perhaps less true in some other regions where progress was already rapid before 2000.  Each region should [...]

At the Royal Institution of Great Britain: Discussing ‘To Move the World’

Book Discussion at The World Bank

Discussing JFK and “To Move the World” at the World Bank.

Bring Back Egypt’s Elected Government

NEW YORK – Putting an end to Egypt’s deepening polarization and rising bloodshed requires one urgent first step: the reinstatement of Mohamed Morsi as Egypt’s duly elected president. His removal by military coup was unjustified. While it is true that millions of demonstrators opposed Morsi’s rule, even massive street protests do not constitute a valid [...]

Restore Egypt’s Elected Government

Originally published in The Huffington Post. American politicians and pundits know almost nothing about Egypt but were quick to endorse the military coup against Mohamed Morsi. Nobody from President Obama on down has called on the Egyptian military to reinstate the elected president, which is the first and most obvious step to save Egypt from [...]

Profiles in Peacemaking

Fifty years ago, President John F. Kennedy did the seemingly impossible. At the height of the Cold War, he moved the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, toward peace. The lessons of Kennedy’s act of leadership – one of the greatest of modern times – are directly relevant today. I recount [...]

War lobby on top in Washington

The War lobby in Washington won two key victories last week. From the White House and Congress, political leaders of both parties swore allegiance to massive surveillance on American and foreign citizens in the name of fighting terror. And then to cap the week, President Barack Obama announced that the CIA would channel weapons to [...]

David Gregory Speaks with Jeff Sachs

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