LOS ANGELES — “Climate change doesn’t care about our politics.” We’ve all heard it before. When political strings are attached to climate negotiations, the environment becomes collateral damage, reduced to little more than a leveraging tool in the greater pursuit ...

LOS ANGELES — Caught between a constant tug-of-war between two of the world’s largest carbon emitters, Central Asia is more consequential in climate discussions now than ever.  Situated between Russia to the North and China to the East, the Central ...

LOS ANGELES — President, and aspiring Sultan, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has single-handedly transformed Turkey into one of the most threatening global forces of the 21st century.  As the Western world was swept up in the chaos of the coronavirus pandemic ...