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318 commentaries, Updated on 24 Apr 2024

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Anne O. Krueger The Geopolitics of Africa’s Debt Crisis
  2. Jayati Ghosh The Key to Transforming African Health
  3. Ishac Diwan, et al. Developing Countries’ Liquidity Crisis Is Not Over
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51 commentaries, Updated on 23 Apr 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the conflict in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

  1. Slavoj Žižek Canceling Palestine
  2. Kaushik Basu Globalization vs. Democracy
  3. Joschka Fischer The Gaza War Goes Global
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25 commentaries, Updated on 2 May 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the issues and trends shaping the biggest global election year in history.

  1. Jodie Ginsberg Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom
  2. Joseph E. Stiglitz Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism
  3. Jeffrey Frankel The Election-Devaluation Cycle
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126 commentaries, Updated on 18 Apr 2024

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Project Syndicate is highlighting a selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on iss…

  1. Emmanuel Nyirinkindi, et al. Gender-Neutral Fintech Isn’t Working for Women
  2. Jane Kabubo-Mariara Africa’s Prosperity Depends on Achieving Gender Equality
  3. Nkechi S. Owoo Give Women with Disabilities a Chance
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31 commentaries, Updated on 26 Apr 2024

In Finance of the Future, Project Syndicate, with support from Circle, brings together leading experts, innovators, regulators, and more to examine th…

  1. Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Central Banks in a Cashless World
  2. Paolo Tasca The Struggle for Currency Supremacy
  3. Dante Alighieri Disparte America Must Lead on Crypto Regulation
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90 commentaries, Updated on 22 Apr 2024

As former Irish President Mary Robinson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu pointed out nearly a decade ago, “climate change is a matter of ju…

  1. Justina Nixon-Saintil AI Holds the Key to Resilient Cities
  2. Iván Duque Márquez How Guyana Became Latin America’s Leading Development Lab
  3. Laurence Tubiana Taxing Polluters Is the Key to Climate Justice
Putin's War on Ukraine

432 commentaries, Updated on 29 Apr 2024

Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory in Ukraine for which it apparently hoped, but a prolonged war of attrition would amount to a different …

  1. Chris Patten The West Must Not Let Putin Win
  2. Carl Bildt Trump Is Putin’s Only Hope Now
  3. Tatyana Deryugina, et al. Ukraine Is Far From Doomed
The Light Bulb

58 commentaries, Updated on 11 Mar 2024

In The New Enlightenment, Project Syndicate, in partnership with The New Institute, brings together leading experts, academics, practitioners, and pol…

  1. Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Governments Must Shape AI’s Future
  2. Bertrand Badré, et al. How to Democratize AI
  3. Mariana Mazzucato A Progressive Green Growth Narrative
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46 commentaries, Updated on 16 Apr 2024

Activists, campaigners, and other experts consider how to support freedom, justice, and human dignity globally.

  1. David Alton, et al. Who Should Decide If It’s Genocide?
  2. Graça Machel The World’s Moral Failure in Gaza
  3. Chris Patten China Tightens Its Grip on Hong Kong
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86 commentaries, Updated on 24 Apr 2024

PS commentators consider how to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks created by artificial intelligence.

  1. Peter G. Kirchschläger AI Needs UN Oversight
  2. Daron Acemoglu, et al. History Already Tells Us the Future of AI
  3. Justina Nixon-Saintil AI Holds the Key to Resilient Cities
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213 commentaries, Updated on 1 May 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the growing threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law around the world.

  1. Joseph E. Stiglitz Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism
  2. Richard K. Sherwin Trump’s Enablers on the Supreme Court
  3. Nancy Isenberg Is Trump Above the Law?
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134 commentaries, Updated on 2 May 2024

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Jodie Ginsberg Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom
  2. Carsten Brosda Must Democratizing the Media Be Bad for Democracy?
  3. Anya Schiffrin, et al. Quality Journalism Is More Important than Ever
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    What Fiscally Sound Industrial Policy Can Do

    Keun Lee highlights three tools that can support domestic-market growth and development without breaking the bank.
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    Why Voters Are Unhappy About the Biden Economy

    Michael J. Boskin explains why Americans do not share the White House’s rosy assessment of its economic track record.
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    Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom

    Jodie Ginsberg warns that the increased targeting of journalists and the media is a key indicator of democratic erosion.
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    Climate Change Is a Worse Health Threat Than We Think

    Manica Balasegaram warns that the world is underestimating the extent to which global warming will fuel antimicrobial resistance.
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    Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock

    J. Bradford DeLong

    Although Tesla appears to be wildly overvalued compared to rival automakers, its shareholders are betting that they can sell their holdings to a greater fool in the near future, and Elon Musk is eagerly indulging their speculative exuberance. None of it bodes well for company’s workers, suppliers, and other customers.

    worries that the first mover in electric vehicles is increasingly running on bucket-shop hype.
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    The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly

    Todd G. Buchholz & James Carter thinks the US should have locked in favorable borrowing rates when it had the chance.
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    What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?

    Harold James considers the political factors pushing the price of the “barbarous relic” to all-time highs.
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    Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    While scandals, culture wars, and threats to democracy dominate the headlines, the biggest issues in this super election year ultimately concern economic policies. After all, the rise of anti-democratic populist authoritarianism is itself the legacy of a misbegotten economic ideology.

    considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
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    Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth

    Alessio Terzi & Gernot Wagner show why shrinking the global economy, as envisaged by advocates of degrowth, is a bad way to cut emissions.

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