Ninety miles separates Key West from Havana; across this strait, these two nations could not be more different. On one side, a superpower that throws away 40% of its food. On the other, a country that has spent thirty years perfecting how to grow food on scraps. Not the Cuba of cable news blackouts and empty shelves, but rather the Cuba that has been here before and knows exactly what to do about it. Three decades on, this same reflex is being asked to ignite again, for a dif

Given the limelight on Donald Trump’s oration this year at the UN General Assembly, one would be forgiven for thinking it will not go down in history books as a stage from which was delivered a rousing paean to multilateralism, democracy, and the rule of law. Yet to the world assembled in New York that day, the session began with exactly that , from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, who preceded Trump onto the stage to give the first oration of the Assembly’s mo

As heightened tensions and security competition come to define international politics, there has been something of an increase in...