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Rebalancing Nature’s Books

Rebalancing Nature’s Books

WASHINGTON, DC—Four years ago, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework,...

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Homi Kharas

Only Israel’s Arab Parties Can Restore Its Democracy

Only Israel’s Arab Parties Can Restore Its Democracy

TEL AVIV—Before Israel’s election, I warned that no one should pin high hopes on the outcome. Sadly, that advice has been vindicated. An...

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Shlomo Ben-Ami

Making the Most of America’s Midterm Tsunami

Making the Most of America’s Midterm Tsunami

CHICAGO—Imagine, for a moment, that the US midterm elections had not delivered Democratic wins at a generational scale, but merely a trickle of...

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Aziz Huq

AI Can Help Governments Help Citizens

AI Can Help Governments Help Citizens

WASHINGTON, DC—Many countries are trying to do more for their citizens, albeit often with outdated systems. That means accessing government services...

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Kalpana Kochhar

MAGA’s Midterm Defeat Won’t Change the Course of History

MAGA’s Midterm Defeat Won’t Change the Course of History

LJUBLJANA—My duty as a philosopher is to spoil the ecstatic sense of relief that has followed the US midterm elections. Yes, at first glance, we all...

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Slavoj Žižek

Can AI Colonialism Be Prevented?

Can AI Colonialism Be Prevented?

NEW DELHI—The world is entering the AI age with the United States and China having established clear technological dominance over all other...

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Jayant Sinha

Turning Sub-Saharan Africa’s Cities Into Job Engines

Turning Sub-Saharan Africa’s Cities Into Job Engines

WASHINGTON, DC—Recent visits to South Africa and Ghana brought home to me the scale of Africa’s urban development opportunity. In Johannesburg and...

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Paschal Donohoe

Who's Winning (ans Who's Losing) The Ocean?

Who's Winning (ans Who's Losing) The Ocean?
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Why Are Indian Protesters Targeting the Electoral Commission?

Why Are Indian Protesters Targeting the Electoral Commission?

NEW DELHI—Following a summer of discontent, India has entered an autumn of political crisis. During a scorching June and July, a youth-led movement,...

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Shashi Tharoor

Why Aren’t We Investing More in Climate Adaptation?

Why Aren’t We Investing More in Climate Adaptation?

BOSTON/GENEVA/SEATTLE—As world leaders gather in Antalya, Turkey, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), climate adaptation is...

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Mekala Krishnan

Put the Ocean at the Center of COP31

Put the Ocean at the Center of COP31

MELBOURNE—For over 30 years, Pacific island countries have issued the same warning at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference: the...

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Peter Thomson

The Democrats’ Historic Duty

The Democrats’ Historic Duty

WASHINGTON, DC—Twenty years. Thirty years. Eighty years, and even 90. Some of the positions Democratic candidates won in Tuesday’s midterm...

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Reed Galen

Dot-Com Lessons for the AI Bubble

Dot-Com Lessons for the AI Bubble

LONDON—It is a truth universally acknowledged that transformative new technologies rewrite the rules of finance. Or so we are told in numerous...

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Chi Onwurah

China Is Defanging the Dollar, Not Dethroning It

China Is Defanging the Dollar, Not Dethroning It

WASHINGTON, DC—After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the United States sought to freeze Russia out of the global financial...

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Ho-Fung Hung

A Fatal Challenge to Mainstream Economics

A Fatal Challenge to Mainstream Economics

KASHGAR—In what is best read as a preemptive swipe at Isabella Weber’s new book, Anti-Fascist Economics, Jason Furman, the chair of the White...

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James K. Galbraith

The ECB Must Bail Out France

The ECB Must Bail Out France

WASHINGTON, DC—The grandiose claim that “Britannia rules the waves” inspired the wry quip that, in fact, Britannia waives the rules. While the...

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Desmond Lachman

Good Institutions Require Good People

Good Institutions Require Good People

WASHINGTON, DC—We should have learned by now that good politics depends not so much on good institutions as on the moral sentiments supporting them....

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Oligarchic World Order

Oligarchic World Order

BALTIMORE/BOGOTÁ—For most people, the word “oligarch” conjures images of Russian elites who amassed huge fortunes in the wake of the Soviet...

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David Lingelbach

Poland’s Constitutional Civil War

Poland’s Constitutional Civil War

WARSAW—In a shocking moment that went viral, Polish President Karol Nawrocki and his cronies were recently filmed breaking into the Constitutional...

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Sławomir Sierakowski

The Tech Brotherhood Wants Sovereignty

The Tech Brotherhood Wants Sovereignty

NEW YORK—Over several centuries, nation-states have come to define the international system and govern much of humanity. After emerging in modern...

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Katharina Pistor

The Far Right’s Vision for Europe

The Far Right’s Vision for Europe

BERLIN—Recent events have cast European politics into sharper relief. With left-wing protests, some violent, engulfing cities from Paris to Milan to...

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Mark Leonard

Europe’s Bright Future

Europe’s Bright Future

PARIS—I was born in Germany, I studied in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and I served as a reserve officer in the French Navy. Today, I am a...

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Thomas Buberl

A Debtors’ Club for a Fragmented World

A Debtors’ Club for a Fragmented World

BANGKOK—For seven decades, some of the world’s biggest official creditors have coordinated their positions in negotiations with debtor countries...

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Ishac Diwan

Trump’s Tariff Fiasco Could Save Free Trade

Trump’s Tariff Fiasco Could Save Free Trade

WASHINGTON, DC—In the nearly two years since he returned to the White House, US President Donald Trump has picked up where he left off in his first...

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Anne O. Krueger

If AI Thinks for Us, Democracy Will Suffer

If AI Thinks for Us, Democracy Will Suffer

CHICAGO—Sometime in the 18th century, the Enlightenment settled a contentious, centuries-old question: Where does knowledge come from? For...

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John Palfrey

A Tory Mentor for the MAGA GOP

A Tory Mentor for the MAGA GOP

WASHINGTON, DC—“There is a fight coming in British politics. A fight that we have not seen in this country for more than half a century. It will...

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Michael R. Strain

The Politics of Poland’s Judicial Crisis

The Politics of Poland’s Judicial Crisis

WARSAW—Dramatic scenes are playing out at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal amid a wave of speculation about whether Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s...

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Maciej Kisilowski

Mapping AI Resistance

Mapping AI Resistance
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Carl Benedikt Frey

The World’s Perilous Ebola Complacency

The World’s Perilous Ebola Complacency
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Tom Achoki

Industrial Decarbonization Is Good for Business

Industrial Decarbonization Is Good for Business
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Elisabeth Reynolds

When the AI Bubble Bursts

When the AI Bubble Bursts
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William H. Janeway

After Brazil and Serbia’s Elections

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The New Geopolitics of Mining

The New Geopolitics of Mining
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Ngaire Woods

Can Bond Vigilantes Prevent the Next Debt Crisis?

Can Bond Vigilantes Prevent the Next Debt Crisis?
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Nouriel Roubini

A Wealth Tax Would Harm California

A Wealth Tax Would Harm California
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Laura Tyson

A Future for Europe’s Youth

A Future for Europe’s Youth
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Ana Palacio

A Tale of Two Chinas

A Tale of Two Chinas
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Kenneth Rogoff

Sino–American Stability?

Sino–American Stability?
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Stephen S. Roach

Europe’s Winter of Discontent

Europe’s Winter of Discontent
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Harold James

How Students Dethroned Serbia’s Strongman

How Students Dethroned Serbia’s Strongman
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Filip Milačić

The Authoritarian Logic of Selective Privacy

The Authoritarian Logic of Selective Privacy
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Danielle Keats Citron

What a US-China AI Safety Channel Needs

What a US-China AI Safety Channel Needs
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Lizzi C. Lee

Brazil’s Chapter in the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Brazil’s Chapter in the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook
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Robert Muggah

Another Crash Landing for Brazil’s Economy?

Another Crash Landing for Brazil’s Economy?
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Gene Frieda

Europe’s Make-or-Break Moment Has Arrived

Europe’s Make-or-Break Moment Has Arrived
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Joschka Fischer

Middle Powers Can Lead on AI Safety

Middle Powers Can Lead on AI Safety
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Gordon Laforge

Lula Killed the Donroe Doctrine

Lula Killed the Donroe Doctrine
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Jeremy Adelman

The Wrong Way to Compare Economic Size

The Wrong Way to Compare Economic Size
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Jeffrey Frankel

Public Control for a Purposeful Economy

Public Control for a Purposeful Economy
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Mariana Mazzucato

Rethinking Sustainable Livelihoods From the Ground Up

Rethinking Sustainable Livelihoods From the Ground Up
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Grita Anindarini