World Disappointed by the UN Now Looks Elsewhere for Answers

  • World body struggles to keep pace with coups, pandemic and war
  • Biden is only veto-wielding Security Council leader to attend

A man walks near a burning warehouse hit by a Russian shell in the suburbs of Kyiv in 2022.

Photographer: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images

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A brutal, grinding war in Ukraine. Governments overthrown in Niger and Gabon. Lingering hostility over the Covid-19 pandemic and the unequal distribution of life-saving vaccines.