G20 Summit in South Africa Exposes Global Leadership Failures on Climate and Debt

In Johannesburg, poorer nations made a bold stand at the Group of 20 summit, forcing the world's wealthiest powers to confront issues they often prefer to sidestep: crippling debt burdens and climate catastrophes disproportionately hurting developing countries. Yet amid these pressing calls for justice and equity, the conspicuous absence of the United States revealed a troubling disconnect between American leadership and global realities. How Will America Respond When Our Allies Are Left Behind? The U.S. boycott of this crucial summit over politically charged accusations against South Africa left a vacuum at a gathering where cooperation between rich and developing countries...