Featured Protesters outside U.N. headquarters hold signs reading “STOP ENHANCING VIRUSES,” “CURES, NOT CHIMERAS,” “DEMAND INTERNATIONAL GAIN-OF-FUNCTION MORATORIUM,” “OUR HEALTH!,” “SAVE THE FUTURE!,” “SAFETY FIRST!,” and “TRANSPARENCY, NOT SECRECY!” with CDC and WHO logos.

How Many Pandemics Will it Take Before the Paradigm Shifts?

Where are the protestors? With virulent outbreaks a recurring headline in 2026, one wonders why we are so ill-prepared for the next pandemic — and why gain-of-function research has yet to to inspire international cooperation to reduce existential pandemic risks.

What Should We Fear More? Climate Change or Climate Policy?

Humanity is at a crossroads: Can democracy survive climate change? Can individual liberties coexist with climate policy? Must "degrowth communism" replace Capitalism? Or is there a third way?

What the History of Ukraine Teaches us About the Risks of Mismanaging Climate Crisis

Climate crisis is real. So is the crisis we are creating in attempt to stop it. What Ukraine's history can teach us about man-made disaster.