Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world’s three most influential living economists of the past decade. Sachs is the author, most recently, of “The Age of Sustainable Development," 2015 with Ban Ki-moon.
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Views Wednesday, August 05, 2020 Beware Biblical Literalists Like Pompeo Seeking War With China Many white Christian evangelicals in the United States have long believed that America has a God-given mission to save the world. Under the influence of this crusading mentality, US foreign policy has often swerved from diplomacy to war. It is in danger of doing so again. Last month, Secretary of... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 03, 2020 What Asian Nations Know About Squashing Covid The number of Americans who have died from Covid-19 now significantly exceeds the total US troop fatalities during the Vietnam War . While the coronavirus continues to ravage the country, with confirmed cases exceeding 1 million and deaths rising by the day, some states are lifting stay at home... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 13, 2020 Why the US Has the World's Highest Number of Covid-19 Deaths The US now has the world's highest number of deaths from Covid-19 , with at least 21,692 losing their lives to the virus as of Sunday afternoon. Americans will continue to die in large numbers until our country mounts a coherent response to the epidemic. President Donald Trump has failed. The US... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 03, 2020 How US Can Keep Death Toll Far Below the 100,000 Projection On Tuesday, the White House projected an alarming possibility: Between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans could die from the Covid-19 pandemic , despite the efforts in place to minimize the spread of the disease. Yet these 100,000 to 240,000 deaths are not inevitable. Far from it. As of Thursday night... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 27, 2020 Why America Has the World's Most Confirmed Covid-19 Cases On Thursday, we hit a grim watershed. The US overtook Italy and China as the country with the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. This is a dire crisis and an extraordinary failure of President Donald Trump. Americans are suffering and dying because the Trump administration failed to act... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 23, 2020 Global Cooperation and a National Lockdown: Our Best Hope for Fighting Coronavirus Covid-19 is a pandemic of remarkable ferocity. The global population lacks immunity because this is the first time in known history that we are confronting this coronavirus. The virus is also highly transmissible. To add to the problem, many people who have been infected experience mild, if any... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 20, 2020 Congress Should Immediately Give $100 Billion to Cities and States to Fight Coronavirus As America struggles to confront the coronavirus outbreak, Washington has been consumed with getting money to households and businesses -- but the most urgent need is money in the hands of first responders: the health system, the emergency support personnel (police and others) and the social... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 13, 2020 The Generational Divide Between Biden and Sanders The main lesson of the Democratic primaries is the growing generational divide in US politics, one that reflects the deep and disruptive shifts taking place in the US economy. Former Vice President Joe Biden has captured the votes of older Democrats; Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders the votes of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 05, 2020 Trump's Ludicrous Handling of the Coronavirus The recent statements by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar show the distorted mentality of America's ruling elite. Azar is a typical Trump administration appointment : a drug industry lobbyist and former drug company manager put into a position of responsibility—or perhaps better said,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Even Wall Street Plutocrats Can't Burn Bernie The narcissism and Panglossian cluelessness of the Wall Street elite is a marvel to behold. Sitting on their perches of power, and enjoying tax breaks, easy money, and soaring stock markets, they are certain that all is best in this best of all possible worlds. Critics must be fools or devils. When... Read more |