by Omega | Mar 3, 2025 | Environment
Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than expected. Extreme events are taking scientists by surprise. Right now, as the bald reality of climate change...
by Omega | Mar 3, 2025 | Polycrisis
The global scale, systemic interconnection, and severity of today’s climate and ecological crises has led researchers to conclude that the world has entered a new era—or overall state—of complex, cascading, and compounding risk.1 Some have labelled this the...
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...
