The Case for COVID-19 Antibody Therapies

BRUSSELS/GENEVA – As many countries progressively relax their COVID-19 containment measures, preventing a renewed spread of the coronavirus from...

Toward a New Fiscal Constitution

Big Tech’s Big Test

Libya’s Double Tragedy

PERTH – The plight of oil-rich, tribally segmented Libya resembles that of several other war-torn countries in the Greater Middle East, namely...

No Recovery Without Debt Relief

ABUJA – Last month, the African Union launched the Africa Medical Supplies Platform to facilitate the production and provision of vital medical...

What Will COVID-19 Do to Banking?

BARCELONA – The COVID-19 crisis has revealed banks to be not part of the problem for a change, but part of the solution. They have so far proven to...

Sovereign Creditors Must Not Rewrite the Rules During the Pandemic

NEW YORK – In the wake of COVID-19, there is an urgent need for sovereign debt restructuring, including debt relief. In the circumstances caused...

China as Economic Bogeyman

CAMBRIDGE – As COVID-19 spread from China to Europe and then the United States, pandemic-stricken countries found themselves in a mad scramble...

Trust Funds for All

WASHINGTON, DC – It is far from certain whether the post-pandemic recovery will be a lasting one that results in more sustainable and equitable...

How Women Can Power the Green Transition

BRASÍLIA – The world needs to shift from the current fossil-fuel-based energy system to carbon neutrality. Most obviously, this will require...

Are Riots Justifiable?

MELBOURNE/LODZ – In late May and June, following the brutal death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis, mass...

Covid-19 & Deglobalization: What Will the Post-Pandemic World Look Like?

Don’t Scapegoat Migrants for the Pandemic

NEW YORK – Let’s be clear: COVID-19 initially spread around the world as a result of well-heeled travelers returning home from cruises, foreign...

How to Live with the Pandemic

NEW YORK/SINGAPORE/LOMBOK, INDONESIA – The COVID-19 crisis has caused scientists, governments, and public-health experts to scramble to understand...

The Political Logic of China’s Strategic Mistakes

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Some of the Chinese government’s recent policies seem to make little practical sense, with its decision to impose a...

Keep the Geeks in Charge of the Internet

LOS ANGELES – The coronavirus pandemic has rapidly transformed the Internet into the most critical infrastructure on Earth. By enabling people...

India’s China Strategy Is Changing

NEW DELHI – After last month’s clash in the Ladakh region’s Galwan Valley killed 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops, the...

Conservatives Versus Trump

NEW YORK – For a while now, the most interesting critiques of US President Donald Trump and Trumpism have come from the right. By right, I don’t...

The Call of the Tribal

LONDON – Why do politicians make the choices they do? And why do voters then choose to support them? One possible answer is that voters prefer...

Seizing the Health Opportunity

SAN FRANCISCO – The COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions have devastated communities and economies around the world. Barely six months old,...

Democracy Under Siege in America

NEW YORK – Recent challenges to democratic institutions and processes in the United States have raised fundamental political and legal questions...

An Interview with Jorge Castaneda

Project Syndicate: As you note in your latest PS commentary, the problems exposed by America’s triple crisis of COVID-19, economic recession, and...

A V-Shaped Recovery Could Still Happen

LONDON – Since March, I have been more open than other commentators to the possibility of a “V-shaped” recovery from the pandemic-induced...

Understanding the Pandemic Stock Market

NEW HAVEN – The performance of stock markets, especially in the United States, during the coronavirus pandemic seems to defy logic. With...

Europe’s Good Crisis

BRUSSELS – A few months ago, the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the economic and financial crisis it has caused, looked like it might break the...

After the Liberal International Order

CAMBRIDGE – Many analysts argue that the liberal international order ended with the rise of China and the election of US President Donald Trump....

American Exceptionalism Strikes Out

BERKELEY – Once again, the United States is standing out as a world leader, but not for any reason anyone would want to emulate. In most of the...

Harnessing Malawi’s Youth Bulge

LILONGWE – Malawi is facing a massive youth bulge, with more than half the population under the age of 18 – a share that is growing fast. This can...

The Crisis India Needed

WASHINGTON, DC – The ongoing standoff between Chinese and Indian forces along the two countries’ disputed Himalayan border recently resulted in...

Will Universities Learn from Lockdowns?

CAMBRIDGE – Will COVID-19 finally trigger a long-overdue technological disruption of higher education? Throughout the world, sudden mid-semester...

What We Owe Essential Workers

BOSTON – The low-wage workers who make up nearly half of the US workforce have long been neglected, steadily falling behind highly educated workers...