What’s extra hilarious is that the UN confirmed the teleprompter was operated by Trump’s team, so there’s definitely some 25 year old staying the most quiet anyone has ever been and thanking the heavens every time Trump does another rant about the UN sabotaging him

NEW (and I would say groundbreaking) paper from @gdp-center.bsky.social colleagues mapping the global landscape of climate-related industrial policies. It finds green industrial policy is increasing fast, is dominated by the Global North + China, and the policy mix differs across countries

Frankly I think way too many people think of international affairs in terms of flashy geopolitics and and a few hotspot zones of tension instead of the million quiet ways that global interconnection shapes the tiniest aspects of all our lives. Less Armenia/Azerbaijan and more supply chains pls

This seems to be going under the radar but Cass Sunstein has once again spoken

Of course lots of UNGA is show and not enough happens in the end but it really is beautiful that leaders from every country—no matter how big or small, how rich or poor—get together and bring their views to the world. It's the closest thing we have to existing as a unified human community

Of course lots of UNGA is show and not enough happens in the end but it really is beautiful that leaders from every country—no matter how big or small, how rich or poor—get together and bring their views to the world. It's the closest thing we have to existing as a unified human community

I got to read a copy of this. It's so rich, so nuanced, and is both an essential read on the energy transition and gave me so much food for thought on globalized supply chains more broadly. Highly recommend!

Apropos of nothing, the global opinion of the US has taken an unprecedented nosedive since Trump took office timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/what-has-t...

I cannot believe this is a real quote

Watching #UNGA80. Secretary-General Guterres kicking off after being welcomed by #UNGA President Annalena Baerbock. He says "I want to start by saying 2 words that haven't been said enough in these halls: thank you Madam President." Comes amidst push for next UNSG to be a woman

Some additional context on Argentina. The IMF is the global lender of last resort—but Argentina alone accounts for over 1/3 of its outstanding credit! Argentina just got a new $20 billion IMF program in April. But the Trump admin has decided it needs another bailout on top of that

Transformative visions for green industrial policy in the Global South are, unfortunately, impossible without a redesign of today's international financial architecture (IFA). In a new @cplusc.bsky.social report with @laramerling.bsky.social, we explain... 1/4 climateandcommunity.org/research/gre...

Bessent sending a strong stamp of approval to Milei's economic policy advisor, Conan the dog

It's all "America First" and "no more handouts to foreigners" until a country with no plan and no special connection to US interests gets a massive bailout bc Trump likes the president's vibes

NEW (and I would say groundbreaking) paper from @gdp-center.bsky.social colleagues mapping the global landscape of climate-related industrial policies. It finds green industrial policy is increasing fast, is dominated by the Global North + China, and the policy mix differs across countries

I've spent a lot of time abroad this year. I wrote about watching people around the world come to terms with the United States of 2025 timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/traveling-...

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth

Starting a thread of all my Substacks 👇

I do think perceived orderliness has an outsized impact on perceptions of immigration—this chart is probably showing that the idea of a chaotic border looms large more than that asylum seekers are uniquely unpopular. But again, popular concern about immigration is largely detached from real flows!

The best thing I've read on the new information ecosystem. (And a great gateway for people whose influence is based on traditional expertise/credentials. It's by the Carnegie Endowment! There are footnotes!)

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

If you were behind the veil of ignorance, would you create a secret police force run by a guy who accepts $50,000 bribes in Cava bags?

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Every year you think the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Awards couldn’t become more of a caricature of DC think tank brain and yet they manage to pull it off

Maybe a dumb question but why do they even care about drugs so much? I don’t think there’s a widespread drug panic. Is it the idea that immigrants must be smuggling drugs? Or that it’s easier to blame foreigners for opioid problems than the likes of the Sacklers? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Every paragraph of this @dwallacewells.bsky.social essay is worth reading but the last three gave me the chills www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Fascinating new study from the Rockefeller Foundation: polling from 34 countries on international cooperation. As much as nationalism has surged, most people still think cooperation is worth compromising national interests for. (And US #2 developed country—backlash to Trump?)

Here in Geneva as COP president Andre Correa do Lago announces a new integrated forum on climate change and trade. As trade measures like CBAMs have become increasingly contentious within COPs, the forum aims to create a dialogue bridging the WTO and UNFCCC #WTOPublicForum

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green? New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

I'll be at the #WTOPublicForum this week! Issues I'm following: ensuring trade rules facilitate (or at least don't obstruct) green structural transformation, rolling back ISDS, and how Global South countries respond to the instability in the global trading regime

Trump's occupation of DC has "horrific 'mystery agents'...cosplaying as police so they can kidnap non-white people with impunity." That's not just the perspective of our community members. That's the perspective of MPD Officer Daniel Hodges.

The idea I'd throw into the Fed reform debates: expand the Fed's mandate to consider the international impacts of its actions. The dollar's reserve currency status means the Fed is essentially the world's central bank. It should act like it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

There isn't much distinguishing Elon Musk from the typical keyboard warrior who got radicalized on far-right corners of the internet, except he's also the world's richest man and owns one of the key media platforms. It's unprecedented, dangerous, and also within the power of governments to solve

I have sometimes been a Jeff Sachs skeptic but I was pretty impressed with him here www.geneva-connection.com/e/season-2-e...

"It used to purchase [rice] and send it to countries that needed it. One might call that a win-win: people who need food getting it, farmers getting compensation." Another example of how US sourcing of global food aid, while sub-optimal for humanitarian efficacy, really did have political clout

"The transition will happen with or without US participation. By withdrawing from these industries and blocking allies from Chinese partnerships, America risks becoming a bystander to the biggest economic transformation of our time." Great thread on our report:

Who thought we would see the day the IMF was called "exceedingly woke"

New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.

BREAKING Brazil’s supreme court finds former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate Lula, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss. Trump, a Bolsonaro friend, had pressured the court to drop the case www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Truly could not microtarget something for me more than Zohran Mamdani going on Guardian Football Weekly to discuss FIFA greed, coping with disappointment as an Arsenal fan, and Arsenal’s history of African players www.theguardian.com/football/aud...

‼️New study from my lab: proud to share not one but two Bloomberg articles covering our new report on Chinese outbound FDI. We spent the summer painstakingly coding investment across the global south. The results are striking:

Smog in Sialkot, Pakistan, where 70% of the world’s soccer balls are manufactured

"By tying increasingly severe and common heat waves to specific companies, the new research could find its way into courtrooms where individuals, cities, states and countries are seeking to hold fossil fuel producers accountable for climate damages." www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

Cool foreign policy we have here

This report makes clear just how deep the hubris of Biden-era climate champions was in proclaiming the IRA various versions of "the largest climate action ever." The Biden administration never even considered anything on the scale of what China has been doing — both abroad and at home.

Notable to see this piece from UK Member of Parliament Noah Law calling for the UK—whose law governs 90% of low-income country sovereign bonds—to take action on debt www.devex.com/news/time-fo...

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

BREAKING: The Supreme Court is granting an unusually quick hearing on whether President Donald Trump has the power under federal law to impose sweeping tariffs.