by Omega | Feb 28, 2025 | Economy
The Lower East Side of Manhattan is home to some of the oldest and most storied charities in the country, founded at the dawn of the Progressive era. University Settlement, established in 1886, opened one of the first public baths in New York City. In 1893, Henry...
by Omega | Feb 27, 2025 | Environment
In October 2023, The World Transformed, the annual conference of the British Labour Party’s leftist flank, offered a grizzled socialist organizer a brief speaking slot. He’d been asked the question “Why is the left losing?”—a mystery many liberals in America and...
by Omega | Feb 25, 2025 | Politics
The day after Donald Trump’s win, the Leslie-Lohman Museum transformed its SoHo gallery into a refuge. Streams of visitors and staff alike sunk into comfy chairs, sipped hot tea, laughed, cried, and processed the news in one of the world’s few LGBTQ art museums, a...
by Omega | Feb 24, 2025 | Politics
Though we might find it hard to imagine, we cannot now rule it out: the possibility of systemic collapse in the United States. The degradation of federal government by Donald Trump and Elon Musk could trigger a series of converging and compounding crises, leading to...
by Omega | Feb 24, 2025 | Worldviews
The 20th edition of the Global Risks Report 2025 reveals an increasingly fractured global landscape, where escalating geopolitical, environmental, societal and technological challenges threaten stability and progress. This edition presents the findings of the Global...
by Omega | Feb 18, 2025 | Politics
Today, the question of rise or fall is more pertinent than ever. In this age of globalization, centralized power, economic inequality, deep demographic shifts, political polarization, pandemics and climate change, and radical disruption in the media and information...
by Omega | Feb 14, 2025 | Polycrisis
As we move ever closer to the collapse of the world’s systems, the question arises whether philanthropy can save us from what Joanna Macy called ‘the great unravelling’? To find out, the H & S Davidson Trust asked Alliance to conduct interviews with 10 leading...
by Omega | Feb 13, 2025 | Resilience
By exploring 25 evidence-based potential disruptions across environmental, technological, economic, social, and geopolitical domains, the Strategic Foresight Toolkit for Resilient Public Policy helps anticipate challenges and opportunities that could reshape the...
by Omega | Feb 12, 2025 | Resilience
Over years spent weaving futures thinking into real-world strategy and policy, I’ve learned that transforming the future is neither simple nor straightforward. My journey has taken me across government, civil society, and global organisations, where the stakes are...
