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CAMBRIDGE—It has become a common refrain among Americans that the US political system is broken. The question is how it reached this point—and how...
WARSAW—Earlier this month, Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, a state where foreign...
PRINCETON—The summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping comes at a time when both are gambling everything on AI—or...
BERLIN—As world leaders descend on New York City for the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, the international order they have...
FRANKFURT—In her 1967 essay “Truth and Politics,” the political philosopher Hannah Arendt observed that “Freedom of opinion is a farce unless...
ITHACA, NEW YORK—Over the past decade, scholars and journalists have been writing about what the march of digital technology means for humanity with...
LONDON—Modern liberal democracy is buckling in many countries whose citizens have known no other system, with established parties shedding support...
BERLIN—On September 6, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won 43.8% of the vote in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, falling...
PRETORIA—As global leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the world is facing the largest number of armed conflicts...
WASHINGTON, DC—When US President Donald Trump fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics—claiming falsely that the agency’s economic...
BUENOS AIRES—For much of the 2000s, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) seemed to have finally distanced itself from the International Monetary...
SEOUL—AI is advancing at a breathtaking pace, and so are fears about its impact on jobs, especially for young people entering the labor market. The...
STANFORD—Bilateral trade agreements appear to be shaping the future. The interim trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur (Argentina,...
NEW HAVEN—Europe has come to a crossroads in its economic relationship with China. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, noting in her...
STOCKHOLM—Benighted politics are once again haunting the Balkans. This month’s semi-official funeral in Belgrade for the convicted war criminal...
WASHINGTON, DC—In his second administration, Donald Trump has injected the federal government deep into private markets and undermined the...
ATHENS—Is AI a bubble? It all depends, we are told, on whether massive investments in the technology will massively boost productivity. Optimists...
LIBREVILLE—During a recent talk at the Harvard Kennedy School, students asked me what it would take to turn African countries from consumers of...
LONDON/LOS ANGELES—When President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Washington this week, AI governance is expected to be at the...
PARIS—Coming just a couple weeks after the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won the largest share of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt’s state...
BERLIN—Germany’s economy in recent years has been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting energy...
PRINCETON—Germany’s far right has won again, capturing the largest share of the vote in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as it...
VIENNA—Anyone old enough to remember the Cold War will also remember an imagined place called the “free world.” It was where Westerners believed...
LONDON—On September 24, US President Donald Trump is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington. As leaders of the two most powerful...
PARIS—The Sino-American rivalry, often portrayed as a new cold war, has become the lens through which many view global power dynamics. But this...
NEW YORK—From the moment it was announced, the ceasefire between the United States, Israel, and Iran has been marked by a different form of...
WARSAW—European policymakers have spent the past few years asking how Europe can become economically more like the United States or China. But they...
BOGOTÁ—Leading the United Nations has always been a balancing act, but the breakdown of the postwar global order has added a new dimension of...
CAMBRIDGE—This week, US President Donald Trump will host his counterpart, Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the White House, and other world leaders...
LONDON—The world must now face up to the fact that the increase in average global temperatures will surpass 1.5° Celsius, the more ambitious of the...
ABUJA/LAGOS—Africa has long found itself at the wrong end of the innovation chain. Breakthroughs were made and commercialized elsewhere, then...
MUNICH—September 6, 2026, could mark a turning point in Germany’s postwar political history. In the Saxony-Anhalt state election, the far-right...
SANTIAGO—At an academic event in Brussels a few months ago, one of the speakers casually suggested that the next time the group met, the far right...
LONDON—AI agents are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are...
BRUSSELS—In her latest State of the Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reached back almost 80 years for inspiration,...
GENEVA/LONDON—This year may be remembered as the one when climate change could no longer be ignored. Rich economies are now suffering the...
BEIJING—In late August, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared an “economic D-Day” against Iran, promising “the single greatest...
FRANKFURT—Following the 2007–08 global financial crisis, the world’s leading central banks spent more than a decade unconcerned about inflation....
NEW DELHI/STOCKHOLM—There is a paradox at the heart of climate politics. An overwhelming majority of people around the world want governments to...
BERLIN—In January, US President Donald Trump suggested that his newly created Board of Peace might eventually replace the United Nations. It’s...
MEXICO CITY—One year ago, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum used her first state-of-the-nation address to offer a confident verdict on the...
WASHINGTON, DC—Picture a company that hands a hard problem to a large team, locks each team member in a separate room, and tells them to solve it...
STANFORD—The theme of last month’s annual gathering of central bankers and economists in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was “financial innovation.”...
NEW YORK—At first glance, India and China seem to be taking almost identical positions on the Ukraine war: maintain close ties with the Kremlin, buy...
PARIS—The debate over artificial intelligence and employment has become preoccupied by a false choice. One side predicts large-scale job...
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