Valuing Resilience After the Pandemic

STOCKHOLM – If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world one thing, it is the high price we pay – in lost lives, damaged economies, and wasted...

China Still Needs Expansionary Economic Policy

BEIJING – The Chinese economy grew by 6.5% in the fourth quarter of 2020, providing a strong indication that it has recovered from the COVID-19...

The Return of the Taliban

Project Syndicate · The Return of the Taliban | Ashley Jackson Transcript Elmira Bayrasli: Welcome to Opinion Has It. I’m Elmira Bayrasli. Could...

Modi’s War on the Press

NEW DELHI – A flurry of assaults on freedom of the press in recent months has raised troubling questions about the state of India’s democracy...

Beyond the Vast Social-Media Wasteland

LONDON – On May 9, 1961, then-Chair of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Newton Minow delivered a transformative speech to the...

Central Asia’s Afghan Route to Prosperity

BISHKEK – For the first time in centuries, there is an opportunity to connect Central and South Asia via modern transport and energy corridors...

Employment in the Platform Age

NEW DELHI – One of the most significant socioeconomic changes accelerated by COVID-19 must surely be the rise of digital labor platforms. Of...

The Key to Beating COVID-19

OTTAWA – It has been a year since the coronavirus pandemic started dominating headlines and our lives. For so many here in Canada and around the...

Social Capitalism

MILAN – The COVID-19 pandemic has damaged the stock of physical and human capital. Firms have postponed or canceled investment projects, and...

The G20’s Missed Opportunity

ISLAMABAD – This month, G20 finance ministers agreed to a proposal to issue $650 billion worth of the International Monetary Fund’s reserve...

Biden’s Diplomacy of Benign Neglect

WARSAW – US President Joe Biden is very familiar with both Poland and Ukraine. His decades of service as a United States senator and his eight...

What’s Behind Jordan’s Palace Intrigue?

WINCHESTER – “I am not the person responsible for the breakdown in governance, the corruption and for the incompetence that has been prevalent in...

How the Fed Could Go Green Faster

BOSTON – The US Federal Reserve has made a number of climate-related announcements in recent months, joining the Network for Greening the...

The Challenge of Big Tech Finance

BERKELEY – In 2009, in the midst of the global financial crisis, Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chair, famously observed that the only...

Biden Must Fix the Future, Not the Past

CAMBRIDGE – President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan is likely to be a watershed moment for the American economy, clearly signaling...

The Geography of Pandemic Effects

How to Stop the Poverty Pandemic

WASHINGTON, DC/CAMBRIDGE – Globally, extreme poverty is  increasing for the first time in 20 years. Although some poor countries are now...

Myanmar Explodes

Europe’s Complacency Trap

LONDON – COVID-19 has wounded almost every developed country, but the truth is that living standards in many of them had been stagnating or...

Myanmar’s Young Demand Their Future

GENEVA – Half of Myanmar’s population is under the age of 30, and many of these young people have benefited from their country’s fragile,...

Rebuilding Social Trust in Post-COVID America

CHICAGO – At first glance, the coronavirus pandemic has deepened economic divisions within the United States. It has magnified income and social...

China’s Economic Self-Harm

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Early last month, China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, officially approved the country’s...

A New Deal for Informal Workers

CAMBRIDGE – In the early 1930s, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in an attempt to combat the effects of the Great...

The End of Amateur Hour for the NCAA

CHICAGO – Last week, as the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s “March Madness” basketball championship neared its conclusion, the US...

The Mother of News Stories

DENVER – In addressing climate change, “winning” slowly is the same as losing. We have only one chance to fix this problem before it becomes...

America’s Undimmed Global Culture

NEW YORK – Amanda Gorman’s remarkable performance of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at US President Joe Biden’s inauguration touched millions....

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