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America’s Post-Trump China Strategy

NEW HAVEN – With the United States in the hands of an unstable president, diplomacy is not the answer for a conflict-prone US-China relationship....

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Stephen S. Roach

Why Haven’t Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the US Economy?

CAMBRIDGE – When US President Donald Trump took office last January, most economists feared what would happen if he raised tariffs. The expectation...

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Jeffrey Frankel

A Country and a World Out of Balance

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Richard Haass

A Decisive Year for Ocean Conservation

MELBOURNE – While the ocean’s health is perilously close to a tipping point, 2025 offered reasons for hope. In fact, over the next five years, we...

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Peter Thomson

Will Dollar Dominance Survive Digital Money?

WASHINGTON, DC – Twice in the last century, the foundations of global finance shifted, because the burden placed on the machinery of money became...

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Silvia Sgherri

Why Trump Has an Affordability Problem

WASHINGTON, DC – At a recent rally to tout his economic policies, US President Donald Trump suggested that voters’ growing concerns about...

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Michael R. Strain

PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2026

Every December, we ask Project Syndicate commentators to identify the political, economic, and policy trends to watch in the year ahead. Last year,...

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Ps Editors

Donald Trump and the White Man's Burden in Nigeria

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Adekeye Adebajo

Gen Z Is Making Politics Hopeful Again

OXFORD – Grim as the final month of 2025 has been – with headlines dominated by mass shootings, crises, and polarization – one positive development...

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Ngaire Woods

Europeans Are All Peronists Now

LONDON – Jean-Claude Juncker, the former European Commission President and former Luxembourg Prime Minister, once said “We all know what to do,...

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Cristina Ramirez

A Model to Keep Multilateralism Alive

GENEVA – Few would deny that there has been a shift away from multilateral cooperation in recent years. As the world becomes more multipolar,...

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José Manuel Barroso

Rogue Hegemons Are Sabotaging the Global Economy

WASHINGTON, DC – Although 2025 will probably be remembered as the year that US President Donald Trump upended the global trading system, the truth...

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Arvind Subramanian

How the Fed Became a Lender of Immediate Resort

STANFORD – The greatest threat to the independence of the US Federal Reserve does not come from President Donald Trump’s attacks or a Supreme Court...