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325 commentaries, Updated on 28 Jun 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. Linguère Mously Mbaye Rethinking How to Address Irregular Migration from Africa
  2. Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani, et al. Putting Africa on the Path to Prosperity
  3. Hakainde Hichilema The G7 Cannot Afford to Ignore Africa
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58 commentaries, Updated on 7 Jun 2024

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

  1. Raja Khalidi The Financial Destruction of Palestine
  2. Yanis Varoufakis Strict Separation Is Not the Answer for Palestine and Israel
  3. Anne O. Krueger Divestment from Israel Will Not Bring Peace
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86 commentaries, Updated on 10 Jul 2024

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

  1. Dani Rodrik What the New Left Needs
  2. Zaki Laïdi The Most Incredible Election in French History
  3. Daron Acemoglu The Starmer Model
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132 commentaries, Updated on 17 Jun 2024

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

  1. Titir Bhattacharya, et al. Can Private Hospitals Increase Access to Health Care in Developing Countries?
  2. Dolika Banda Investing in African Women Will Yield Outsize Returns
  3. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, et al. During This Super Election Year, More Women Are Needed at the Top
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33 commentaries, Updated on 24 Jun 2024

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

  1. Jordan Bleicher, et al. The Geopolitical Imperative to Upgrade the Dollar
  2. Agustín Carstens, et al. The Rise of the Finternet
  3. Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Central Banks in a Cashless World
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91 commentaries, Updated on 21 Jun 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. Mia Amor Mottley, et al. What Climate-Vulnerable Developing Countries Need Right Now
  2. Justina Nixon-Saintil AI Holds the Key to Resilient Cities
  3. Iván Duque Márquez How Guyana Became Latin America’s Leading Development Lab
Putin's War on Ukraine

444 commentaries, Updated on 24 Jun 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. Ana Palacio The Putin-Kim Pact Is an Opportunity for the West
  2. Wolfgang Fengler, et al. Tracking Ukraine’s Reconstruction Funds
  3. Timothy Ash The Economic Case for Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets to Support Ukraine
The Light Bulb

60 commentaries, Updated on 21 Jun 2024

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

  1. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
  2. Mariana Mazzucato The Economics of Health for All
  3. Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Governments Must Shape AI’s Future
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48 commentaries, Updated on 10 Jun 2024

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

  1. Abdullah Gül The Case for Optimism in the Muslim World
  2. Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir How to Close the Gender Wage Gap
  3. David Alton, et al. Who Should Decide If It’s Genocide?
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100 commentaries, Updated on 9 Jul 2024

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

  1. Dambisa Moyo Where Will the AI Super Cycle Lead?
  2. Ylli Bajraktari AI-Augmented Disinformation Is NATO’s New Battlefield
  3. Diane Coyle The Digital Economy’s Growing Time Tax
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237 commentaries, Updated on 4 Jul 2024

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

  1. Ian Buruma Democracy, What Democracy?
  2. María Fernanda Bozmoski Nicaragua’s Downward Spiral
  3. Bruce Ackerman The Path Not Taken in Trump’s Immunity Case
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135 commentaries, Updated on 29 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. Antonio Zappulla To Protect Democracy, Protect Exiled Journalists
  2. Jodie Ginsberg Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom
  3. Carsten Brosda Must Democratizing the Media Be Bad for Democracy?
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    Do We Need a Plaza Accord 2.0?

    Koichi Hamada thinks that policymakers should instead focus on the benefits provided by a flexible exchange-rate regime.
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    The False Distinction Between Industrial and Economic Policy

    Célestin Monga explains why differentiating between “vertical” and “horizontal” government intervention does not hold water.
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    Don’t Be Fooled by China’s Third Plenum

    Stephen S. Roach reminds Western observers that the Chinese government's real priorities are very different from their own.
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    What the New Left Needs

    Dani Rodrik

    The new left that is emerging in Europe and the US must confront head-on both the new structure of the economy and the productivity imperative. Only then will it turn into the genuine political movement of the future and a credible alternative against today's populist far right.

    sketches a worker-focused economic program that can take the wind out of right-wing populists' sails.
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    What to Make of the New Russia-North Korea Alliance

    Yoon Young-kwan

    A new military alliance between Russia and North Korea has unnerved China as much as it has the United States and its Asian allies, owing to its potential to destabilize all of Northeast Asia. In developing its response, the West should leverage this strategic incongruence between China and its junior allies.

    thinks a new treaty introduces major new risks that could force China to rein in its junior partners.
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    The Show Trial of Arundhati Roy

    Shashi Tharoor thinks prosecuting the world-renowned author over remarks made in 2010 will backfire on India's government.
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    The Most Incredible Election in French History

    Zaki Laïdi thinks the winnerless outcome only adds to the sense of chaos that has come to define the country’s politics.
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    Joseph E. Stiglitz on inflation, freedom, neoliberalism, and more

    Joseph E. Stiglitz highlights four inflation risks associated with another Donald Trump administration, explains what US Republicans get wrong about freedom, identifies the principles that should guide a post-neoliberal agenda, and more.
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    The Starmer Model

    Daron Acemoglu thinks the UK Labour Party’s victory holds lessons for centrist and center-left parties elsewhere.

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