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The Turn: From Reactionary Populism to a Progressive Alternative

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What is a "progressive alternative" for our world and what steps should we take to bring about these changes?

SDG: 2030 Agenda

Subject: Systems Change

Keywords: progress; conflict; inequality; systemic change

In early 2021, Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger delivered a three-part webinar series to discuss the systemic and structural changes necessary to create a progressive future, with a focus on Brazil and the US. Both countries suffer from political polarization, populism, social conflict, and economic inequality among the highest in the world. Professors Sachs and Unger analyzed and debated how the two countries reached their current state of crisis, and how each nation--and the world--can forge a progressive alternative to overcome the current impasse.