The world is in crisis right now, but the summer is shaping up to be much worse—for reasons beyond every country’s control, including America’s. And then, in a couple of months, we’ll likely have El Niño to contend with too. Welcome to the polycrisis. That term, which was coined back in the 1970s, has gained popularity in recent years—thanks in part to Columbia professor Adam Tooze . Popularly, it’s sometimes seen as shorthand for “a lot of bad things happening all at once,” but that misses its