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How Latin America Should Navigate US-China Tensions

SANTIAGO – Once a peripheral presence in Latin America, China has become one of the region’s most important partners. Bilateral trade expanded...

The Logic of Effective Climate Action

BERKELEY – In his classic book, The Logic of Collective Action , the late great Mancur Olson explained that the hardest policies to implement are...

Is Globalization Harming Innovation?

MUNICH – Globalization encourages innovation, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But emerging evidence suggests that this assumption, like so...

Switzerland’s Brexit Moment

BRUSSELS – The Swiss government’s recent withdrawal from long-running negotiations on a framework agreement with the European Union has triggered...

How Human Nature Can Combat Climate Change

BRUSSELS – Both the COVID-19 pandemic and global warming are about survival, and are health crises at their core. But typology is not their only...

Herd Immunity Is Closer Than You Think

LONDON – When will the world have vaccinated 80% of all adults, the level presumed by scientists to produce herd immunity against COVID-19? Most...

The Benefits of Bottom-Up Entrepreneurship

KUALA LUMPUR – As Bangladesh turns 50 this year, the country has much to celebrate. Its human-development progress has been exceptional compared...

The Fickle Charms of Private Global Finance

NEW DELHI – Once again, emerging markets are on the capital-flows roller coaster – one no less dizzying for being so familiar. And once again,...

Does NATO Have an Arms-Control Brain?

LONDON – Under Donald Trump, NATO was lucky just to stay alive. Indeed, in 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the alliance was...

A Global Tax Deal for the Rich

NEW YORK – Historic, game-changing, revolutionary: such has been the widespread reaction to the recent agreement by G7 finance ministers on a...

The Party Is Not Forever

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Human beings approaching 100 normally think about death. But political parties celebrating their centennial, as the...

The Big Float

Vaccines for All or Vaccine Apartheid?

LONDON – The G7 summit starting on Friday will mark the first time that world leaders have met in person for almost two years. It is Joe Biden’s...

The Paradoxes of the Bangladesh Miracle

NEW DELHI – Ravaged periodically by natural calamities, long dependent on foreign aid and remittances, and a perennial source of refugees and...

The Virus Next Time

BRISBANE – As more developed countries begin to feel as though they have made it to the other side of the COVID-19 crisis, two striking realities...

What Is the Point of the Olympics?

NEW YORK – Kaori Yamaguchi, an Olympic medalist in judo and an executive member of the Japanese Olympic Committee, made an astonishing statement...

China’s Population Bust

An Update on the Cuban Missile Crisis

MOSCOW – As US President Joe Biden prepares to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the stakes might not seem all that high. With...

Will China Save the US from Inflation Fears?

AMHERST – The fiscal expansion in the United States in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is like nothing seen outside of wartime. Further...

The Upside of Population Decline

LONDON – China’s recently published census, showing that its population has almost stopped growing, brought warnings of severe problems for the...