Adam Tooze
The first week of March featured a moment of dark political comedy worthy of Veep creator Armando Iannucci. In a scene that felt scripted for satire, the United States became the sole nation in the U.N. General Assembly to vote against the establishment of both an International Day of Hope and an International Day of Peaceful Coexistence. More astonishing still was the formal letter read out by Washington to explain its position on the latter resolution.
In the letter, the U.S. government categorically rejected the entirety of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. This wasn’t simply a withdrawal, as from the climate commitments of the Paris Agreement; it was an unambiguous denunciation of the collective ambition to improve the material condition of humanity. American voters, the letter claimed, had delivered a clear mandate in the last election: Their government must put America first, caring first and foremost for
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