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. Sachs is the author, most recently, of "A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism" (2020). Other books include: "Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable" (2017) and “The Age of Sustainable Development," (2015) with Ban Ki-moon.
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Views Thursday, April 29, 2021 The Intellectual Property on Covid-19 Should Be Shared as Rapidly and Widely as Possible The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for the rights on intellectual property (IP), including vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies to fight COVID-19. They are absolutely correct. IP for fighting COVID... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 13, 2021 It's Time for Corporations to Pay America What They Owe America's corporate sector owes the rest of the economy big time. And the Biden administration is taking first steps to redress this through long-overdue tax reforms that will help pay for the modernization of infrastructure that businesses—and all of us—need to thrive. At the core of President Joe... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 30, 2021 The Current Battle Over Voting Rights Is a Battle for America's Future America is two cultures in one nation. The first culture brought slavery, the genocide of Native Americans, "Jim Crow" laws enforcing white supremacy, and former President Donald Trump's bullying, lying, and cruelty, which culminated in the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The second culture... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 28, 2021 In This Current Emergency There Is Nothing Wrong With Borrowing Funds to Help Americans in Need The US federal government should spend more money, and fast, to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, rescue hard-hit families and help states, cities and small businesses. But it should also strive for a relief package built on some degree of bipartisan consensus. The first step to this package?... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 19, 2021 It Is Biden's Historic Task to Reverse Reagan's—and Trump's—Reckless Radicalism President-elect Joe Biden is inheriting a national crisis that has built up over 40 years. On January 20, 1981, former President Ronald Reagan took the US on a radical course when he declared in his inaugural address , "In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem;... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 17, 2021 One Group Who Knew All Along How Dangerous Trump Was: Mental Health Experts Of course, the media environment was set up for the likes of Trump. America is filled with racism, sexism, and hatred, and with mass media outlets like Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News that have no responsibility to the truth. The Fairness Doctrine, which used to protect us, was repealed decades ago by... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 08, 2021 The Truth About Trump’s Mob The storming of the US Capitol on January 6 is easily misunderstood. Shaken by the ordeal, members of Congress have issued statements explaining that America is a nation of laws, not mobs. The implication is that the disruption incited by President Donald Trump is something new. It is not. The... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 06, 2021 Five Reasons for Optimism in 2021 The year 2020 was a harrowing one, with the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide economic reversals, widespread climate-related disasters, pervasive social unrest, and even US President Donald Trump’s phony claims about massive electoral fraud and calls among his backers for martial law. Yet, despite the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 24, 2020 The Ugly Part of the $900 Billion Stimulus Bill The new Covid-19 stimulus package will be a great relief for tens of millions of Americans, but the process of getting to it exposed the need to overhaul our broken budget politics. Both parties have been at fault in creating a process that is chaotic, undemocratic and ultimately reckless. The late... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 29, 2020 Supreme Court's Scientifically Illiterate Decision Will Cost Lives Last month, I wrote that Amy Coney Barrett would help to usher in a new post-truth jurisprudence on the Supreme Court. While I had cited her anti-science statements on climate change, her arrival on the court has created a new 5-4 majority against public-health science at the height of the Covid-19... Read more |