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NEW DELHI—Indian politics has long been defined by a stubborn regionalism. In states like Assam, Kerala, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal,...
TOKYO—As G7 finance ministers were meeting in Paris this month, the bond market was telling us what their official communiqués would not. The...
PARIS—Few political marriages are stranger than the one binding Donald Trump’s MAGA movement to the newly ascendant “Tech Right”—the cohort...
AUSTIN—“Lies! Nothing but lies!” So complained my niece, if I recall correctly, as she soldiered through Harvard’s introductory economics...
HONG KONG—A partial reopening of the Strait of Hormuz may be on the horizon. But is a lasting regional settlement any closer?
PARIS—In a recent series of Substack posts, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman made a counterintuitive argument to support the view that...
CAMBRIDGE—US President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to end inflation “starting on day one.” He even pledged to lower the price level,...
PRINCETON—UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s rapid loss of political authority has been widely seen as a British peculiarity. But the same malaise...
NEW HAVEN—Chinese President Xi Jinping sent an unmistakably tough message on Taiwan to US President Donald Trump during their recent summit in...
POTSDAM—As scientists, we had the uneasy privilege of witnessing China’s rise earlier than most. Long before a country’s regional or global...
BOSTON—Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we communicate, access information, and work, how income and status are distributed, and even how we...
LUCERNE—Pope Leo XIV has just issued his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which states the Catholic Church’s position on the threats posed...
WASHINGTON, DC—Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a regional agricultural powerhouse. Although it accounts for just 8% of the global...
Austerity is typically associated with economies that have weak fundamentals or otherwise lack options for achieving fiscal sustainability. But the...
CAPE TOWN—As the world pursues decarbonization, the concept of a “just transition” has become ubiquitous, particularly when describing the shift...
WASHINGTON, DC—In his second term, President Donald Trump has turned extortion and coercion into central features of American statecraft, deploying...
LONDON—Europe today faces an increasingly hostile geopolitical landscape, yet the European Union is struggling to unite its member states around a...
PRINCETON—Pope Leo XIV has now weighed in on the most pressing issue of our time: the advent of artificial intelligence and the recognition that...
NAIROBI/SEATTLE—As the war in Iran disrupts fertilizer supplies and undermines food security around the world, the need to build more resilient food...
BERLIN—On his recent trip to Beijing, US President Donald Trump, the world’s most powerful person, was accompanied by many of the top names in...
WASHINGTON, DC—Industrial policy is back, and with a vengeance. After decades of preaching neoliberalism, Western policymakers and intellectuals...
SHANGHAI—Being in China during US President Donald Trump’s visit was a fascinating experience. The contrast between the official accounts of...
NEW YORK—US President Donald Trump’s administration believes that the dollar’s reserve-currency status has tilted the global playing field...
WASHINGTON, DC—America’s redistricting wars have expanded beyond even the Republican Party’s wildest imagination. Thanks to captive state...
NEW DELHI—Discussions about “AI sovereignty” generally focus on two things: investment and capabilities. Countries are encouraged to fund...
PRETORIA—Gender inequality in the labor market remains both pervasive and paradoxical. Despite widespread opposition to gender disparities,...
CAMBRIDGE—Governments around the world are struggling to devise a sensible approach to managing inflation and disruptions to production and the...
ATHENS—The idea of a European Defense Union is gaining ground across Europe. But so long as NATO continues to dominate Europe’s security, the...
KYIV—National resilience has long been defined by military strength and defense spending. But policymakers are starting to recognize that culture is...
CAMBRIDGE—Consideration of economic and financial conditions today calls to mind the economic theorists who most influenced my own thinking, as an...
AMHERST—Many commentators, including those on the right, have dubbed US President Donald Trump’s “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran...
PARIS—When Donald Trump unveiled his famous “reciprocal tariff” scorecard last April, most of the commentary focused on the sheer scale of the...
MADISON—For several years now, a significant share of young Chinese people, disillusioned with their economic prospects, have embraced “lying...
TEMPE—In 1981, President Ronald Reagan wanted to cut funding for children’s nutrition programs as part of broader spending cuts that were billed...
CHICAGO—AI tools will undoubtedly transform the nature of work. Large language models can already generate referee reports on my own research papers...
WASHINGTON, DC—Donald Trump’s recent summit with Xi Jinping has revived a familiar debate: Would the United States defend Taiwan if China invaded?
BERLIN—The king has two bodies: a mortal one that eats, sleeps, and dies, and an immortal political one that persists as the state. US President...
NEW HAVEN—The recent summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing produced no major breakthroughs on tariffs, Taiwan, or ongoing...
WATERLOO—Faced with a rapidly changing global terrain, Canada is adjusting its footing. The new reality is one where technological control,...
BRAZZAVILLE/DOHA—The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC and OPEC after nearly six decades of membership has dealt a major structural...
PARIS—Environmental and climate concerns appear to be in retreat worldwide. The word sustainability has become politically charged, the Trump...
LONDON—Given UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s flailing effort to stay in power despite his party’s huge losses in local elections this month, it...
TORONTO—The United States has unprecedented power to conduct military strikes anywhere around the world, to impose damaging tariffs and sanctions,...
CAPE TOWN/ADDIS ABABA—Maps are never neutral. They are instruments of knowledge, yes, but also of power, ideology, and often manipulation.
STOCKHOLM—Two aging leaders are struggling to get out of disastrous wars that they personally drove their countries into. Neither is succeeding.
WASHINGTON, DC—More than 50 years after decolonization, the West still regards Africa as a supporting player in the global economy: a source of raw...
SEOUL—Global imbalances are again dominating international economic debates, and with good reason. Large and persistent imbalances often end badly,...
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