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LONDON—On his first morning as prime minister of the United Kingdom, Andy Burnham visited a charity for the homeless and pledged to end rough...
GENEVA—Ever since the discovery of previously undisclosed liabilities revealed the true size of Senegal’s public debt, the country’s political...
CAMBRIDGE—On the classic American game show “To Tell the Truth,” three contestants claimed the same identity while a panel of celebrities...
SINGAPORE—The signing of a 20-year data-center lease probably does not register as a monetary event. Even the announcement of a dollar-pegged...
OXFORD—The changing face of the battle for Ukraine has taken much of the world by surprise, both in terms of the horrific scale of casualties that...
PRINCETON—World politics has gone topsy-turvy. No longer do the old great powers seem to control everyone’s destiny. They have been weakened and...
NEW HAVEN—Hong Kong deserves credit for putting up a fight. In the nearly two and a half years since I expressed the apparently controversial...
CHICAGO—As the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in the opening wave of US-Israeli airstrikes in February, drew to a close,...
PARIS—Global imbalances are moving back to the top of the policy agenda, reflecting angst about the “second China shock.” As China’s...
NEW YORK—The United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, is already sending shockwaves through Westminster. Defying almost every political...
WASHINGTON, DC—Starting in mid-December 2025, southern Africa endured months of relentless rainfall. Floodwaters swallowed roads, bridges, clinics,...
CAMBRIDGE—June 25 was a consequential day for American agriculture. In the morning, the US Supreme Court—encouraged by President Donald Trump’s...
NEW HAVEN—For generations, the United States distinguished itself not simply by its wealth or military power, but by offering ambitious people born...
LONDON—Much has been said about AI’s security and military risks. But the cultural and economic threats posed by large language models (LLMs)...
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—The past decade has offered Americans an unusually vivid glimpse of long-hidden networks of wealthy elites. Beloved by...
LONDON—In 2016, then-Prime Minister Theresa May marked the first anniversary of the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act with a commentary touting...
NEW YORK—On August 3, negotiators at the United Nations will resume work on a Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. This is the...
BUDAPEST—One major lesson from the political catastrophes of the 20th century appears paradoxical: Democracies sometimes must pursue seemingly...
LONDON—I recently launched a new policy platform (with Gemma Cheng’er Deng) to promote closer cooperation between the West and the BRICS group...
BOGOTÁ—Last month, Iván Cepeda, a Colombian senator and human-rights advocate, lost the country’s presidential election to Abelardo de la...
CAMBRIDGE—Fifty years ago this month, I was in Lisbon working for the Banco de Portugal. With me were four other MIT graduate students, including...
SEATTLE—When I joined Facebook in 2009, I believed in the mission that founder Mark Zuckerberg espoused: to connect and empower people around the...
BERLIN—The era in which global order rested on a US monopoly over military and economic power and values has finally come to an end, taking...
WASHINGTON, DC—Megan Garcia did not set out to become one of the most consequential figures in the fight to regulate AI. A lawyer and mother of...
JOHANNESBURG—In this, its semiquincentennial year, let’s give America its due. By the turn of the 20th century, it was a leading industrial power...
WASHINGTON, DC—Africa’s richest person, the Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote, has built the world’s largest single-train oil refinery in...
BEIJING—Chinese firms have achieved global leadership in industries once assumed to be the preserve of advanced economies: electric vehicles,...
STOCKHOLM—If Russian President Vladimir Putin were to make a clearheaded assessment of the state of his war with Ukraine, he would seek a ceasefire....
MADRID—Some institutional failures unfold not through scandal but procedure, with acts of sabotage dressed up in the language of good-faith inquiry...
PRINCETON—In a new polemic that aims to serve as a manifesto for our times, the economists Julia Cagé of Sciences Po and Thomas Piketty of the...
ROME—The global monetary order is fragmenting. Each use of financial sanctions by the United States raises the option value of an alternative to the...
CAPE TOWN—The economist Dani Rodrik recently reopened one of development economics’ most enduring debates, arguing that developing countries...
KYIV—Just as French aristocrats under the ancien régime could hardly imagine the abolition of their noble titles, most of today’s university...
CANNES—For the first time in more than a decade, a Hungarian government has said something about the euro that markets can actually plan around....
NEW DELHI—The on-again, off-again US-Israeli war against Iran has underscored the growing disconnect between financial markets and real economic...
PARIS—It is now abundantly clear that governments must take responsibility for shaping the AI industry. Only independent and proactive institutions,...
BERLIN—European leaders breathed a sigh of relief as US President Donald Trump departed last week’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. Despite a few...
WASHINGTON, DC—The rapid rise of China, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the US-Israeli war with Iran have made geopolitical rivalry the main...
CAMBRIDGE—One of the most impressive feats of the current generation of tech oligarchs is that they have hacked not just computers or software, but...
SINGAPORE—The past four months have demonstrated just how volatile oil markets can be. In March, Brent crude climbed above $100 a barrel for the...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA—After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US President George W. Bush called on Americans to go shopping. While some people...
NAIROBI—In an increasingly unstable geopolitical environment, governments across the developed economies of the OECD are rethinking their spending...
NEW YORK—The Persian Gulf is in an unstable disequilibrium. There has been no lasting deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, because the United States...
WASHINGTON, DC—In the long sweep of history, China’s economic performance over the past 50 years will obviously stand out for the sheer scale and...
MOSCOW—Karl Marx once wrote that theory becomes a material force the moment it grips the masses. Soviet leaders took that line and ran with...
MADRID—One way to represent the AI age is with a steep curve and a gradual slope. The curve rises almost vertically: models rapidly grow cheaper,...
WASHINGTON, DC—Japan appears to be on the cusp of a full-blown currency and bond-market crisis. Although the Japanese authorities spent more than...
TEL AVIV—Late last month, Lebanon and Israel signed a framework agreement with the United States that Lebanon’s chief negotiator, Nada Hamadeh...
CANNES—The Gulf ceasefire lasted barely three weeks. After Iranian attacks on three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the United States...
NEW YORK—The self-immolation of exiled Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen outside United Nations headquarters in New York on July 2 was not an...
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