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PARIS—We live in a world of senseless suffering and impending catastrophe, where it would seem the idea of moral progress has become unintelligible....
CHICAGO – More than one month has passed since the United States and Israel launched a joint war against Iran. While US President Donald Trump has...
NEW DELHI—In a rambling address to the American people on April 1, US President Donald Trump claimed that the US war against Iran has been a...
NEW YORK—If you had asked me six months ago about the risks of another massive financial crisis in the United States, I would have said it is always...
MILAN—Although one might be hard-pressed to find similarities between the wars in Ukraine and Iran, Donald Trump’s April Fools’ Day speech from...
SINGAPORE – Recent energy crises, particularly the Iran war, have exposed how vulnerable many countries are to conflict, disruption, and coercion....
MEXICO CITY—For much of the past decade, Mexico has maintained macroeconomic stability, even as the drive to centralize power has eroded democratic...
TUNIS, TUNISIA—The US/Israel-Iran war is confronting African economies with a brutal reckoning. Once again, most of the continent finds itself at...
MEXICO CITY—The ongoing dispute between Anthropic and US President Donald Trump’s administration reveals something deeply troubling about the...
ATHENS – As missiles, bombs, and drones fly across the Persian Gulf, the prospects of an even more devastating war in the Pacific are strengthening....
SINGAPORE – Every new restriction on trade between the United States and China is supposed to pull the two economies apart—or so we are told. But...
BERLIN—Ten years ago, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton and won the US presidency largely on the strength of his criticism of the reckless Iraq...
FRANKFURT – The sharp increase in global energy prices since the start of the Iran war has revived memories of the 2022 spike, triggered by...
LONDON – China manifests a striking paradox. It is among the world’s most dynamic technological powers, producing breakthroughs in AI, electric...
TORONTO – The key question about Iran’s energy-export terminal on Kharg Island is not whether the United States can seize or disable it. Of course...
BERLIN – The applause in Washington when Israeli and US airstrikes killed Iran’s senior political and military leaders was understandable. It was...
CALI – The Cuban economy is facing a crisis more acute than the one it experienced in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the...
TORONTO – Setting aside the moral, legal, and political arguments against the United States attacking Iran, US President Donald Trump’s latest war...
MEXICO CITY – Long before Marxism-Leninism became Cuba’s official ideology in the early 1960s, the island was the epicenter of Latin American...
OSLO – As the United States and Israel rain bombs down on Iran, with the stated intent of subduing one of the world’s most brutal regimes,...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, DC – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney did not just warn of a “rupture” in the international order during his speech in...
PARIS – Nuclear weapons made wars of conquest between great powers unthinkable. After 1945, nuclear powers could still confront one another, but...
BUDAPEST – There is now a distinct possibility that Hungary’s main opposition party, Tisza, will defeat Viktor Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party in...
STOCKHOLM – The United Nations General Assembly recently declared the four-century-long transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against...
PHILADELPHIA – For years, the US economy has been the envy of developed and developing countries alike. Dynamic, productive, and investing heavily...
LONDON – The US-Israeli war on Iran is a wake-up call for the European Union: energy remains a critical strategic vulnerability. But addressing this...
ABU DHABI – Wars are fought not only on battlefields but also on the field of cost calculations and public perceptions. A belligerent may accept the...
NEW HAVEN – A few years ago, I had a hunch that China’s long-standing culture of spirited debate over economic policy would disappear. And now...
PARIS – In the 21st century, power no longer lies only in territory, capital, or technology. It lies in something far more elusive and finite: human...
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – The oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf are often described as petrostates. But the US-Israeli war with Iran has...
NEW YORK – The financial and economic implications of the US-Israeli war with Iran will depend on the war’s duration. The longer it goes on, the...
AUCKLAND – The US-Israeli war on Iran has already destabilized the global economy and the geopolitics of the Middle East. Even more alarming, recent...
MILAN – Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil and a quarter of its fertilizer passes,...
PROVIDENCE – As the Iran war entered its fourth week, financial markets finally began to price in the possibility that the conflict was rapidly...
LONDON/LOS ANGELES – China’s just-concluded “Two Sessions” – the annual meetings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese...
AUSTIN – The National Security Strategy that US President Donald Trump’s administration published last November was remarkable, far-reaching, and...
WASHINGTON, DC – It is hard to overstate how profoundly US President Donald Trump has reshaped the international landscape over the past 14 months....
WASHINGTON, DC – Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, economists and commentators have been discussing generative AI’s...
BERLIN – After declaring Iran’s military “gone,” US President Donald Trump appealed to Britain, France, Japan, and South Korea – as well as...
MELBOURNE – In 2005, the United Nations World Summit, attended by more than 170 heads of state and government, made a political commitment to...
LONDON – In the 1960s, the CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro with poisoned cigars, exploding seashells, and contaminated diving suits, as if knocking...
COPENHAGEN – Never expect gratitude from voters. Winston Churchill learned that bitter lesson when he lost the 1945 UK general election in a...
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...
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