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Navigating Major Transitions in an Uncertain Economy

CAMBRIDGE – Once again, US economic and market forecasters are having a difficult time. Worse, while 2023 surprised on the upside, the deviation...

yesterday 20

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Mohamed A. El-Erian

Must Democratizing the Media Be Bad for Democracy?

HAMBURG – Sometimes, the fulfillment of a promise feels like punishment. When the radio was invented more than 100 years ago, the German...

yesterday 10

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Carsten Brosda

The Perils of Retirement in America

BERKELEY – America’s retirement system isn’t working. It is failing older workers, pensioners, and would-be retirees, and if we don’t fix it...

yesterday 40

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Teresa Ghilarducci

Central Banks in a Cashless World

LONDON – Economics has always had a strange and much-debated relationship with money. For a long time, economists – including Nobel laureates...

yesterday 20

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Mariana Mazzucato

Governments Must Step Up to Prevent Cervical Cancer

SILVER SPRING – Jessica Pettway, a YouTube fashion and lifestyle influencer, died this month from cervical cancer at the age of 36. Her untimely...

yesterday 20

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Ifeanyi M. Nsofor

Fifty Years of Immunization Success Call for 50 More

GENEVA– There is a good chance that you know one of the 154 million people who over the past 50 years have been saved from a preventable death by...

previous day 30

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Sania Nishtar

Trump on Trial

BATON ROUGE – Facing criminal indictments in connection with a hush-money payment to an adult-film actress and his efforts to overturn the result...

previous day 20

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Nancy Isenberg

How to Rebuild Trust in Public Institutions

OXFORD/NASHVILLE – As voters around the world head to the polls this year, many have lost trust in politicians and even in democracy itself. For...

previous day 20

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Eleanor Carter

Is Trump Above the Law?

BATON ROUGE – Facing criminal indictments in connection with a hush-money payment to an adult-film actress and his efforts to overturn the result...

previous day 20

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Nancy Isenberg

The IMF Chose the Right Leader the Wrong Way

OXFORD – Kristalina Georgieva’s reappointment as managing director of the International Monetary Fund is a welcome development, but it also...

previous day 30

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Ngaire Woods

Trump Is Putin’s Only Hope Now

STOCKHOLM – The news this past week was undoubtedly met with relief in Kyiv and with grief in the Kremlin. The US Congress finally broke its...

previous day 40

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Carl Bildt

Canceling Palestine

LJUBLJANA – It is only April, but we already have a good candidate for photo of the year. On April 12, German police shut down a Palestine...

wednesday 60

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Slavoj Žižek

The Geopolitics of Africa’s Debt Crisis

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States has a population of roughly 330 million, while all NATO countries combined have about 975 million. Adding...

wednesday 50

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Anne O. Krueger

AI Needs UN Oversight

ZURICH – Many scientists and tech leaders have sounded the alarm about artificial intelligence in recent years, issuing dire warnings not heard...

wednesday 40

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Peter G. Kirchschläger

Why the EU’s New Migration Pact Matters

MADRID – Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, and with European Parliament elections looming, the narrow passage earlier this month of the...

wednesday 30

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Ana Palacio

Ukraine Is Far From Doomed

URBANA, ILLINOIS/BERKELEY – After a months-long delay, the fractious United States House of Representatives finally approved more than $60 billion...

wednesday 6

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Tatyana Deryugina

The Pandemic Financing Developing Countries Need

CHICAGO – Pandemic preparedness was on the agenda at last week’s Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, held in...

wednesday 20

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Rachel Glennerster

The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

MUNICH – Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, the West has desperately sought ways to punish Russia...

wednesday 50

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Brahma Chellaney

History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

BOSTON – Artificial intelligence and the threat that it poses to good jobs would seem to be an entirely new problem. But we can find useful ideas...

23.04.2024 70

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Daron Acemoglu

America’s Childcare Is Unfit for the Postmodern Age

NEW HAVEN – Until the twenty-first century, people took for granted that their most meaningful relationships – with family, friends, and fellow...

23.04.2024 30

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Bruce Ackerman

Trump and the Risk of a US Debt Default

NEW YORK – Donald Trump knows a thing or two about defaulting on debt. His businesses have filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the US...

23.04.2024 50

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William L. Silber

How Risky Is Japan’s Monetary-Policy Normalization?

TOKYO – Last month, the Bank of Japan took its first important step toward monetary-policy normalization. The BOJ ended its negative...

22.04.2024 40

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Takatoshi Ito

AI Holds the Key to Resilient Cities

NEW YORK – The cities that some 4.4 billion people call home are increasingly at risk of catastrophic climate-driven events. Rising sea levels...

22.04.2024 10

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Justina Nixon-Saintil

What to Look for in Trump’s First Trial

CHICAGO – As the first criminal case against Donald Trump gets underway in New York City, the media have forgone their customary practice of...

22.04.2024 8

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Eric Posner

As Families Change, So Must the Safety Net

NEW DELHI – This year marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Year of the Family (IYF). In the decades since the IYF...

22.04.2024 30

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Neha Bansal

Europe’s Red Tape Is Helping Russia

PARIS – The European Union’s spending rules and public-procurement processes are plainly inadequate to the threat posed by Russia’s...

22.04.2024 20

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Laurence Boone

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