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346 commentaries, Updated on 27 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. Hippolyte Fofack Trump Can’t Stop De-Dollarization
  2. Adekeye Adebajo What Trump’s Return Means for Africa
  3. William Ruto A New Deal for Developing Countries
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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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134 commentaries, Updated on 30 Dec 2024

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

  1. Ngaire Woods A Politics of Hope Is Our Best Hope
  2. Sergei Guriev AI Has Not Yet Destroyed Democracy
  3. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President
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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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39 commentaries, Updated on 3 Jan 2025

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

  1. Carl Manlan, et al. Fintech Must Embrace Universal Inclusion
  2. Andrés Velasco Crypto’s Unholy Choir
  3. Andrew Gallucci The Dollar Diplomacy We Need
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108 commentaries, Updated on 9 Jan 2025

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. Thiago Barral, et al. What Climate Justice Means for Latin America and the Caribbean
  2. Mohammed Usrof, et al. Ban Solar Geoengineering
  3. William Ruto A New Deal for Developing Countries
Putin's War on Ukraine

482 commentaries, Updated on 14 Jan 2025

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 Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation
  2. Daniel Gros Is It the Hour of Europe Again?
  3. Slavoj Žižek Fundamentalist Perverts
The Light Bulb

62 commentaries, Updated on 13 Jan 2025

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

  1. Yana Gevorgyan AI Alone Won’t Save the Planet
  2. Mariana Mazzucato Collective Intelligence and the Common Good
  3. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
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63 commentaries, Updated on 15 Jan 2025

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

  1. Lilian Coral, et al. Texas’s Online Age-Verification Law Must Be Overturned
  2. Helen Prejean An Injustice That Biden Can Still Set Right
  3. Gordon Brown Gender Apartheid Is a Crime Against Humanity
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132 commentaries, Updated on 14 Jan 2025

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

  1. Philippe Aghion, et al. What AI Means for Growth and Jobs
  2. Sylvain Duranton, et al. Europe’s CEOs Must Speak Up on AI Regulation
  3. Eric Schmidt We Need Energy for AI, and AI for Energy
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287 commentaries, Updated on 13 Jan 2025

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

  1. Koichi Hamada Will US Democracy Survive Trump?
  2. Jan T. Gross An American Catastrophe
  3. Sławomir Sierakowski Viktor Orbán’s Home for Populist Fugitives
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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 TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang

    By banning TikTok, US authorities have sent American users of the app flocking to Chinese platforms with even fewer safeguards on data security or algorithmic manipulation. Though these, too, might be banned, others will replace them, leading America to construct, one prohibition at a time, its own "Great Firewall."

    thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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    Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

    While some observers doubt that US President-elect Donald Trump poses a grave threat to US democracy, others are bracing themselves for the destruction of the country’s constitutional order. With Trump’s inauguration just around the corner, we asked PS commentators how vulnerable US institutions really are.

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    The Climate Policy Pendulum

    Gernot Wagner notes that green technologies retain their many advantages, regardless of national political developments.
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    Could High-Skill Immigration Increase Under Trump?

    Michael R. Strain argues that the recent kerfuffle over foreign workers underscores the president-elect’s pragmatic instincts.
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    What Happened to International Law?

    Eric Posner sees the web of treaties, conventions, and institutions as another victim of the anti-globalization backlash.

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