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343 commentaries, Updated on 12 Dec 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. Cina Lawson The AI Revolution Is at Home in Africa
  2. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President
  3. Samia Suluhu Hassan What the G20 Can Do for Africa’s Energy Agenda
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77 commentaries, Updated on 16 Dec 2024

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

  1. Dennis Ross Will Stability Rise from the Middle East Rubble?
  2. Daoud Kuttab Trump’s Middle East Challenge
  3. Richard Haass A New Chance for the Middle East
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133 commentaries, Updated on 16 Dec 2024

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

  1. Sergei Guriev AI Has Not Yet Destroyed Democracy
  2. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President
  3. Bartosz M. Rydliński Democracy Needs Workers
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147 commentaries, Updated on 11 Dec 2024

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

  1. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President
  2. María Fernanda Espinosa Did COP29 Fail Women?
  3. Xianghong Wang The Second Glass Ceiling for Women
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37 commentaries, Updated on 4 Dec 2024

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

  1. Andrew Gallucci The Dollar Diplomacy We Need
  2. Paul Ryan Stablecoins Can Defend the Dollar’s Global Status
  3. Christian Catalini, et al. Crypto Policy Needs to Empower Builders, Not Speculators
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105 commentaries, Updated on 19 Dec 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. Ilana Seid The World Needs Ocean-Based Climate Solutions
  2. Mauricio Cabrera Leal Responsible Mining Can Advance Global Environmental Goals
  3. Vera Songwe, et al. A Triple Fiscal Crisis Is Jeopardizing Climate Action
Putin's War on Ukraine

476 commentaries, Updated on 20 Dec 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. Håvard Halland, et al. Norway Is a Ukraine War Profiteer
  2. S.C.M. Paine When Russia Fights the Wrong Enemy
  3. Nina L. Khrushcheva Does a Savage War of Partition Await Ukraine?
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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57 commentaries, Updated on 26 Nov 2024

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

  1. Christy Hoffman Amazon Is Busting Democracy, Not Just Unions
  2. Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė, et al. Belarus in the Dock
  3. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
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130 commentaries, Updated on 16 Dec 2024

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

  1. Eric Schmidt We Need Energy for AI, and AI for Energy
  2. Sergei Guriev AI Has Not Yet Destroyed Democracy
  3. Charles Ferguson Our AI Near-Future
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281 commentaries, Updated on 19 Dec 2024

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

  1. Yanis Varoufakis The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It
  2. Takatoshi Ito The High Cost of South Korea’s Short-Lived Martial Law
  3. Erwin Chemerinsky Will the Guardrails of US Democracy Hold?
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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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    The US Economy’s Trust Deficit

    Michael Spence considers the causes and consequences of Americans’ declining faith in media and government.
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    Norway Is a Ukraine War Profiteer

    Håvard Halland & Knut Anton Mork argue that the country should give its windfall gains from gas exports to those on the front lines.
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    Navigating the Risks of Digital Public Infrastructure

    Carl Gahnberg calls for guardrails and policy guidelines to prevent governments from abusing the policy paradigm.
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    Services Are the New Road to Development

    Indermit Gill & Aaditya Mattoo explain why developing countries need a new paradigm to replace the old manufacturing-led model.
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    Russia Just Lost Its Great-Power Status

    Galip Dalay explains why the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has diminished the Kremlin’s global influence.
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    Twelve Questions for Philanthropists

    Dambisa Moyo offers practical advice to those who want to contribute effectively to charitable causes.
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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2024

    PS editors

    At the end of a year of domestic and international upheaval, Project Syndicate commentators share their favorite books from the past 12 months. Covering a wide array of genres and disciplines, this year’s picks provide fresh perspectives on the defining challenges of our time and how to confront them.

    ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the books that resonated with them the most over the past year.
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    The World Needs Ocean-Based Climate Solutions

    Ilana Seid calls for creative mechanisms for financing investment in our planet’s largest carbon sink.
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    The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It

    Yanis Varoufakis argues that Western power is alive and well, but the lofty values that once sustained it have been abandoned.

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