Articles - Jeffrey D. Sachs

The war with Iran is Trump’s folly but Congress’s disgrace for not stopping it.

What the US president exhibits is a fundamental incompetence that places us all in grave danger.

The latest package of US sanctions on Iran is unlikely to achieve Washington’s objectives.

We should have an independent inquiry with subpoena power, insulated from the agencies whose own conduct is in question, and let the evidence fall where it falls.

Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite supplies a specific reason the US sustains the Ukraine war: Ukraine has become a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale.

The Marco Polo Drive of Peace, Culture, and Sustainable Development Dunhuang, China — Days 34–36, Dateline: July 19, 2026 On the thirty-fourth day of our journey, we arrived in Dunhuang.

The Marco Polo Drive of Peace, Culture, and Sustainable Development Khiva, Uzbekistan | July 7, 2026 | Jeffrey and Sonia Sachs Transoxania, the ancient Greek name for today’s Uzbekistan, has hosted many of the great turnings of history.

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Expansionist Israel will not stop dragging the US to war in the Middle East.

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Economist and diplomat Jeffrey Sachs is calling on German Chancellor Merz to begin immediate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin about peace in Europe.

The American empire cannot win the war against Iran at acceptable financial, military, and political costs.

To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank check to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest of the world to force Israel to live within its internationally recognized borders of June 4, 1967.

When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed.

By Jim Haslam & Jeffrey Sachs Disclaimer: If Covid-19 were linked to animal vaccine research, it would be an unintended consequence, though the institutional response was anything but accidental.

If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III.

Let us be clear about what the United States and Israel are pursuing.

Special Feature by Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares US Ambassador Mike Huckabee has poured gasoline on a region already in flames.

The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of these illegal tariffs.

The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate.

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a rebuke of U.S. unipolarity at the Munich Security Conference in 2007 By Jeffrey Sachs Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections…

The Middle East stands at a crossroads between endless war and comprehensive peace.