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339 commentaries, Updated on 4 Nov 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. Hippolyte Fofack The Right Climate Finance for Developing Economies
  2. Kingsley Moghalu Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First
  3. Bogolo Kenewendo, et al. Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief
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74 commentaries, Updated on 13 Nov 2024

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

  1. Barak Barfi Trumpian Turmoil Is Coming to the Middle East
  2. Nouriel Roubini Israel and Iran Are Likely to Escalate
  3. Carl Bildt An Israeli Victory May Not Bring Peace
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130 commentaries, Updated on 4 Nov 2024

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

  1. Jan-Werner Mueller When the Left Goes Far Right
  2. Salome Samadashvili The End of Georgia’s European Dream?
  3. Takatoshi Ito Japan’s Electoral Stalemate
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143 commentaries, Updated on 5 Nov 2024

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

  1. Kanika Mahajan To Prosper, India Must Close Its Gender Employment Gap
  2. Andrés Constantin, et al. Self-Managed Abortion Saves Lives
  3. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
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36 commentaries, Updated on 5 Nov 2024

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

  1. Paul Ryan Stablecoins Can Defend the Dollar’s Global Status
  2. Christian Catalini, et al. Crypto Policy Needs to Empower Builders, Not Speculators
  3. Elisabeth Carpenter, et al. Why Most Firms Fail to Capitalize on New Technologies
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97 commentaries, Updated on 8 Nov 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. Emmanuel Macron, et al. The Case for Solidarity Levies
  2. Axel van Trotsenburg Prosperity Requires a Healthy Planet
  3. Mette Frederiksen, et al. How to Mobilize Private Climate Finance
Putin's War on Ukraine

469 commentaries, Updated on 11 Nov 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. Anders Åslund The Battle Over Russia’s Central Bank Heats Up
  2. Marci Shore Shifting the Paradigm in Ukraine
  3. Ana Palacio Ukraine Needs Security Guarantees
The Light Bulb

61 commentaries, Updated on 5 Aug 2024

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

  1. Mariana Mazzucato Collective Intelligence and the Common Good
  2. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
  3. Mariana Mazzucato The Economics of Health for All
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56 commentaries, Updated on 30 Oct 2024

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

  1. Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė, et al. Belarus in the Dock
  2. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
  3. John J. Donohue, et al. The Crisis of America’s Public Defenders
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118 commentaries, Updated on 8 Nov 2024

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

  1. Cori Crider The EU Must Break Up Big Tech
  2. Charles Ferguson What Remote Work Can Do for Global Development
  3. Katharina Pistor Outsourcing Our Future to For-Profit AI
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269 commentaries, Updated on 15 Nov 2024

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

  1. Katharina Pistor Capitalism Is Driving Democracy’s Death Spiral
  2. Shlomo Ben-Ami The Causes and Consequences of Trump’s Comeback
  3. PS Commentators PS Roundtable: The Return of Trump
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138 commentaries, Updated on 16 Oct 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. Katrin Kivi The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger
  2. Geoff Mulgan The Right to Truth
  3. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
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    PS Events: COP29 Live From Baku Session 2

    PS editors present our second session from COP29, Financial Inclusion is Climate Action.
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    The EU Needs a Strong Clean Industrial Deal

    Jean Pisani-Ferry, et al. tout a strategy that combines decarbonization with measures to boost competitiveness and social cohesion.
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    The World’s Babies Need Antibiotics, Not Just Vaccines

    Glenda Gray urges the international community to help African countries prevent infant deaths from treatable infections.
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    How Trump Did It

    Not only did Donald Trump win last week’s US presidential election decisively – winning some three million more votes than his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris – but the Republican Party he now controls gained majorities in both houses on Congress. Given the far-reaching implications of this result – for both US democracy and global stability – understanding how it came about is essential.

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    The Big Picture

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    Capitalism Is Driving Democracy’s Death Spiral

    Katharina Pistor argues that the financialization of the global economy has come at the expense self-governance.
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    What Germany’s Next Government Must Do

    Helmut K. Anheier argues that whoever wins the upcoming snap election must make progress in four key areas.
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    To Win Back Voters, Democrats Should Let Trump Be Trump

    Yasheng Huang

    By voting for Republican candidates, working-class voters effectively get to have their cake and eat it, expressing conservative moral preferences while relying on Democrats to fight for their basic economic security. The best strategy for Democrats now will be to permit voters to face the consequences of their choice.

    urges the party to adopt a long-term strategy aimed at discrediting the MAGA ideology once and for all.
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    What If Trump Keeps His Promises?

    Kaushik Basu warns that the president-elect’s proposed trade policies will erode America’s competitiveness.

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