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CHICAGO – It is becoming increasingly apparent that immigration will be a major issue for voters in this year’s US presidential election. Since...
NEW YORK – Last year, US President Joe Biden’s administration infuriated lobbyists representing Big Tech firms and others that profit from our...
COPENHAGEN – With the approach of June’s European Parliament elections, the grand coalition of the European People’s Party (EPP), the...
LJUBLJANA – The way things are going in Haiti, violent gangs might not only gain an official government role; they might actually become the...
STANFORD – Does free-market capitalism buttress democracy, or does it unleash anti-democratic forces? This question first emerged in the Age of...
PRINCETON – Among her final acts as chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel requested that her colleagues endorse the two...
ACCRA – It is well known that women in developing economies have fewer educational and employment opportunities than their male counterparts,...
EDINBURGH – Last Thursday, more than 280 Nigerian students were kidnapped from their school in Kuriga, a town in the northern state of Kaduna –...
NEW YORK – The way people navigate traffic can tell us a lot about their respective cultures. Recently, while walking to my office in midtown...
BERKELEY – In the United States, the long-term real safe interest rate – the inflation-adjusted return on low-risk investments such as Treasuries...
MELBOURNE – Last month, the European Court of Human Rights decided a case, The Executive Committee of Muslims of Belgium and Others v. Belgium ,...
PRINCETON – The late, sharp-witted economist Michael Mussa, my first boss at the International Monetary Fund, once told me that every statistic...
BUENOS AIRES – Health is much more than a personal matter; it is essential to a society’s well-being and productivity. But achieving equitable...
BOGOTÁ/NAIROBI – Last month, the International Energy Agency’s ministerial gathering took place in Paris, while the African Union, which...
NEW YORK – While we are all paying a steep price for climate change already, today’s children and young people will have to endure far worse...
NEW DELHI – With around 968 million people registered to vote, India’s upcoming general election (to be held over several weeks in April and May)...
BOSTON – The prime minister of one of the larger Caribbean countries travels to East Africa to secure a police deployment that would help address...
STANFORD – As the world splits into rival geopolitical and military blocs, economic ties are fraying, and political, military, and business...
LONDON – Dozens of developed and developing countries, representing half of the world’s population, are set to hold or have already held elections...
BERKELEY – Frontier markets are back. Several African countries have recently returned to global financial markets, placing foreign-currency...
NEW DELHI – While the technical details of international agreements may seem arcane or even trivial, they often commit governments to policies...