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PRINCETON – War is always a gamble. That is true even when leaders call it something else, like “special military operation” (Russian President...
BERKELEY – The United Kingdom is in the throes of a maternal-health crisis. The rate at which women die while trying to give life has been steadily...
WASHINGTON, DC – There is no good time for an economy to face an energy- and food-price shock, but some moments are worse than others. And for the...
LONDON – The US-Israeli war on Iran has destabilized the entire Middle East, inflicted a massive human and environmental toll, and caused one of the...
LONDON – The proven independence of its market institutions has long made the United States the anchor of the global financial system. Even through...
NEW YORK – The 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization – convening this week in Yaoundé, Cameroon – comes at a time when...
PARIS – Europe’s shift to the right has become undeniable. Over the past decade, far-right and populist parties that preach sovereignty, national...
BERLIN – With his recent speech describing the rules-based international order as a “fiction,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a...
MEXICO CITY – While the world anxiously watches the escalating US-Israeli war with Iran, many people in the United States and across Latin America...
STANFORD – As the Iran war enters its fourth week, much of the debate in the United States is focused on the absence of a clear endgame, the erosion...
ADDIS ABABA – The bacteria that cause tuberculosis have been known since 1882, and an effective treatment was developed decades ago. And yet TB...
NEW HAVEN/JAKARTA – Even before US President Donald Trump upended the global trade system by wielding tariffs as a cudgel to force other leaders to...
LONDON – While the rationale for US President Donald Trump’s Iran war is difficult to decipher, its main beneficiary is far easier to identify:...
BERLIN – It can take generations to build a reputation for reliability – and a matter of weeks to destroy it. That asymmetry is the most important...
WASHINGTON, DC – The purpose of international sanctions is to impose economic pain on an adversary. If you are the United States, you do this by...
ABIDJAN – The Belém Package – the set of climate-finance and adaptation measures adopted at last year’s United Nations Climate Change...
BERKELEY – A defining feature of financial markets is that the most important information is often held by those least likely to reveal it. The...
CAMBRIDGE – Immigration is perhaps the most incendiary issue in the United States today. Opponents claim that immigrants are a drain on public...
BIRMINGHAM – If there were awards for unintended consequences in economic policy, the import tariffs introduced by the United States in 2025 would...
NEW DELHI – Few United Nations Security Council resolutions have been as one-sided as its recent condemnation of Iran’s “egregious attacks” on...
STOCKHOLM – Whatever one thinks of the US National Security Strategy published late last year, at least it clearly set out what President Donald...
SILIVRI PRISON, TURKEY – As I mark the first year of my confinement in Silivri Prison, events unfolding beyond these walls suggest that we are...
OXFORD – In the mid-1960s, the mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptographer I.J. Good proposed a thought experiment that has since become the...
SINGAPORE – Energy systems across ASEAN 3 (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, Japan, and South Korea) are under increasing...
GRONINGEN – Jürgen Habermas, who died recently at 96, was a titan of postwar philosophy. His theory of the public sphere, which grounds political...
ADDIS ABABA – When politicians nowadays talk about Africa and climate change, they tend to use the same words: “leadership,” “opportunity,”...
NEW HAVEN – The US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump under the International...
BEIRUT/OXFORD – For decades, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have exported oil and recycled petrodollars through Western markets and...
NEW YORK – Few benchmarks matter more to financial investors than the S&P 500. Trillions of dollars track it directly, and many more are...
WASHINGTON, DC – The messy crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has clarified how power works in the 21st century. It reminds us that the greatest...
PARIS/ROME – The European Council meeting on March 19-20 is unfolding against the backdrop of a deeply unstable international landscape. Russia’s...
BRUSSELS – The European Central Bank’s proposed digital euro is not merely another technological upgrade. In the face of US President Donald...
BERLIN – The great theorists of war agreed that squandering one’s military power is the cardinal strategic sin. Sun Tzu, writing some 2,500 years...
PARIS – Algorithms are not value-neutral. Yet for over a decade now, we have allowed Big Tech to deploy them as the gatekeepers to our information...
BOSTON – Under President Donald Trump, US foreign policy has reached a new low. His administration’s war on Iran, coming just after its kidnapping...
PRINCETON – There is no precedent in American history for a president who papers his image across government department buildings; adorns the walls...
STOCKHOLM – Proliferating wars and shaky alliances are hallmarks of today’s brutal new political reality, one that would have been unimaginable a...
LONDON – This year marks the 250th anniversary of two seminal texts: the US Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations....
DUBAI – The US-Israeli war with Iran is a striking illustration of an all-too-common phenomenon: feasibility bias. The tendency to favor actions...
MEXICO CITY/ZURICH – Middle-aged women now represent a record share of the global workforce, owing to gains in female labor-force participation and...
US President Donald Trump and his Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, have promised an economic miracle. They argue that when the United States adopts...
ITHACA – Advances in technologies that could affect banking, finance, and even the organization of society have brought money to the cusp of a...
RIO DE JANEIRO – From Buenos Aires to Boca del Río, politicians struggling to deal with surging crime are invoking a new magic policy formula:...
SINGAPORE – Since US President Donald Trump started hiking tariffs last year, many commentators have called attention to Asian exporters’...
BIRMINGHAM – If there were awards for unintended consequences in economic policy, the import tariffs introduced by the United States in 2025 would...
Project Syndicate: Since 2026 began, US President Donald Trump has been pursuing an increasingly aggressive foreign policy. It’s easy to imagine how...
PROVIDENCE – The United States has rediscovered its inner imperialist. An American-Israeli war against Iran is underway, and Venezuela is now a...
ITHACA – Following Democrats’ dramatic sweep in state and local elections in the United States last November, pundits agreed that affordability...
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