Horrifying videos of police officers suffocating and shooting Black people in the United States have generated outrage around the world. The killings also triggered demonstrations in thousands of cities and towns in the United States and across the globe, temporarily displacing the COVID-19 pandemic from headlines

The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the quality of governments around the world. Many national leaders have failed the test—in contrast to the leaders of regions and cities

To say that COVID-19 changes everything is already a cliché. But it’s also true.

Cities are at the center of this pandemic, as they have been during so many plagues in history.

Published in Foreign Policy By Robert Muggah The world is convulsed by the novel coronavirus, but that is not the only pathogen that afflicts us. Criminal violence is also endemic, contagious, and highly virulent. More than 464,000 people were killed in homicides in 2017 (the last…

The fate of the Amazon is intertwined with the fate of the world. If 20-25 percent of its tree cover is cut down, scientists estimate, the basin’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide would be severely compromised, taking out of operation one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.

One of the world’s most homicidal countries just registered the sharpest overall decline of lethal violence in its history

The world is less violent today than at virtually any other time in human history

Brazil could play a critical role in promoting stability in an uncertain world. Worryingly, the country is nowhere to be seen.