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In global elections, incumbents are in trouble
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In global elections, incumbents are in trouble

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: Lots going on especially big elections. We have the France results. We have the UK results. We have the Iran results. We have a lot of uncertainty of course, here in the United States, says Ian Bremmer. His big takeaway: this is a horrible time to be an incumbent.

Tucker Carlson, Liberator?
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Tucker Carlson, Liberator?

The former Fox News host visited Canada this week to “liberate” it from … from what exactly?

“Health is a human right”: How the world can make up progress lost to COVID
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“Health is a human right”: How the world can make up progress lost to COVID

2 billion people are facing "catastrophic or impoverishing" health spending worldwide according to the World Health Organization. And governments in the Global South are taking on more and more debt at the expense of investment in health and social services.

A chart comparing life expectancy in the US with the rest of the G-7 countries.
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The Graphic Truth: No country for old men

We compare US life expectancy to the G-7 average (minus America) since 2000.

China-US tensions over COVID origins & Russia's war
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China-US tensions over COVID origins & Russia's war

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: I want to talk about all things China right now, there is so much at stake and at play. A few different points. First of all, the Wall Street Journal had a report that the Department of Energy says that they believe that COVID initially originated from this lab, this Institute of Virology in Wuhan. They now join along with the FBI in having that view. The Chinese are still not allowing the WHO or others to investigate appropriately the origins.

"We're in this together" — UN Foundation chief
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"We're in this together" — UN Foundation chief

Global development has been going backwards since even before the pandemic, and there's no end in sight. Extreme poverty is now rising again, and fraught politics at every level is making it harder to fight inequality around the world. But it's not an irreversible trend, UN Foundation President Elizabeth Cousens tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

Our unsustainably unequal world
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Our unsustainably unequal world

Since 2020, the richest 1% of people has accumulated nearly two-thirds of all the new wealth created in the world. Just 10% of the population owns three-quarters of global wealth — and account for nearly half of carbon emissions. What can we do to turn this around?

Why China is leading economically: infrastructure, energy, & tech
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Why China is leading economically: infrastructure, energy, & tech

Most of the global economy is more likely than not headed toward a recession in 2023. But don't only blame it on inflation and Russia's war in Ukraine. The economic slowdown face this year "is an acceleration of already structural problems around growth, that really started before the pandemic," renowned economist Dambisa Moyo tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

Kailash Satyarthi: Child labor increased during COVID
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Kailash Satyarthi: Child labor increased during COVID

The pandemic not only took kids out of school. It also pushed many into the workforce. COVID raised the demand for children as the cheapest source of labor, Nobel laureate and human rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi says during a Global Stage livestream conversation. Indeed, it's the first team we're going back on meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 8 target on ending child labor.

Bar charts showing change in number of hours worked before and after pandemic in select global regions and income groups.
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The Graphic Truth: World not yet fully back to work

There is only one region of the world that shows more hours worked now than before the pandemic — can you guess which one it is?