Climate summits such as the ongoing COP30 conference can often seem like a place where countries agree to disagree and little gets done. But Bill McKibben says there’s one key reason for hope: the sun. New advances in panels and battery technology mean solar power will soon provide a growing share of our electricity consumption.
McKibbon is the author of the new book Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.
Plus Ravi’s One Thing on Iran’s water crisis.
Nik Kowsar and Alireza Nader: Tehran’s Residents Are Panicking as the Taps Run Dry
Christina Lu: How China Became a Solar Power
Joseph Rachman and Indra Øverland: A Power-Hungry Southeast Asia Wants China’s Energy
Nigel Pruvis: Will Belém Kill Paris?
Jason Bordoff and Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh: AI’s Rapacious Appetite for Electricity Can Accelerate Clean Energy
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Is Trump Angling for Regime Change in Venezuela?
As the United States points its biggest warship at Venezuela, what is the White House trying to achieve in Caracas? How does it fit into the Trump administration’s broader Latin America policy? And how is the region responding? Host Ravi Agrawal sits down with scholar Oliver Stuenkel for answers.
Stuenkel is a leading Latin America scholar and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Plus Ravi’s One Thing on COP30.
FP Columnists: 5 Novelists on Their Favorite Climate Fiction
Oliver Stuenkel and Adrian Feinberg: Milei’s Midterm Miracle
Matthew Kroenig: Trump Should Oust Maduro
Carlos Ruiz-Hernández: The Nostalgic Delusion of 1989
Philip A. Berry: The Use and Abuse of ‘Narco-Terrorism’
John Haltiwanger: Latin America’s Disjointed Reaction to Trump’s Drug Boat War
Geoff Ramsey: What’s the U.S. Endgame in Venezuela?
Ryan C. Berg: Toppling Maduro Without Boots on the Ground
Catherine Osborn: How Migration Became a U.S. Foreign-Policy Priority
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Unpacking the Trump-Xi Meeting
China analyst and former policymaker Elizabeth Economy sits down with Ravi Agrawal to unpack the meeting that took place last week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. What was agreed to? What does it mean for the broader trajectory of the world’s most important bilateral relationship?
Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on Trump threatening military action in Nigeria.
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún: Why Is Trump Suddenly Talking About Invading Nigeria?
Wall Street Journal: Lingling Wei: China’s New Strategy for Trump: Punch Hard, Concede Little
Rishi Iyengar, Christina Lu, and Keith Johnson: What Trump and Xi Did—and Didn’t—Agree to
James Palmer: Trump and Xi Step Back From the Brink—for Now
Alasdair Phillips-Robins: Xi May Have Miscalculated on Rare Earths
Christina Lu: Will Trump’s Critical Minerals Blitz Pay Off?
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Is the AI Economy a Bubble?
Is the AI boom a bubble? What happens if it pops? Economist Jared Bernstein joined FP Live to sound the alarm on the growth and investment in the AI sector.
Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on the first Trump-Xi meeting in six years.
James Palmer: Trump and Xi Step Back From the Brink—for Now
Rishi Iyengar, Christina Lu, and Keith Johnson: What Trump and Xi Did—and Didn’t—Agree To
Sahil Shah: Trump’s Vagueness Over Nuclear Testing Could Fuel an Arms Race
New York Times: Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings: Warning: Our Stock Market Is Looking Like a Bubble
Ravi Agrawal: Is the AI Economy a Bubble?
Bhaskar Chakravorti: 10 New AI Challenges—and How to Meet Them
Bhaskar Chakravorti: American AI Is High on Its Own Supply
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What’s Behind Trump’s Expansionist Instincts?
How can history help make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Greg Grandin shares how Trump’s imperialist impulses may be inspired by the country’s Founding Fathers, and that he “rummages around the trash bag of history to find what’s useful at any given moment.”
Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on the recent U.S. sanctions on Russian oil companies.
Keith Johnson: Will Trump’s Russia Oil Sanctions Finally Sway Putin?
Greg Grandin: America, América: A New History of the New World
Ravi Agrawal: Why Trump Is a ‘Scarcity President’
Syrus Solo Jin: With Territory Comes Torment
Stephen M. Walt: Donald Trump Will Never Be a Restrainer
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Foreign Policy magazine subscribers can watch these interviews live and submit questions and suggestions by going to https://foreignpolicy.com/live/.
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