Joseph E. Stiglitz

Moving from a world with no minimum tax to one with a 15 percent floor would seem to be a step forward. But there was always good reason to worry.

The upsurge of Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths in the United States serves as a bitter reminder that the pandemic is not over. The global economy will not return to normal until the disease is under control everywhere.

At the end of the Cold War, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called “The End of History?”