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338 commentaries, Updated on 23 Oct 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. Kingsley Moghalu Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First
  2. Bogolo Kenewendo, et al. Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief
  3. Kenneth Rogoff Rethinking Foreign Funding for Africa
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72 commentaries, Updated on 23 Oct 2024

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

  1. Carl Bildt An Israeli Victory May Not Bring Peace
  2. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
  3. Dennis Ross Capitalizing on the Weakening of Hamas and Hezbollah
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129 commentaries, Updated on 30 Oct 2024

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

  1. Salome Samadashvili The End of Georgia’s European Dream?
  2. Takatoshi Ito Japan’s Electoral Stalemate
  3. Slavoj Žižek Saving Democracy from Itself
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141 commentaries, Updated on 15 Oct 2024

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

  1. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
  2. Laura Tyson Abortion and Reproductive Rights Are Economic Issues
  3. Jess Ayers, et al. Helping Women Adapt to Extreme Heat Helps Us All
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35 commentaries, Updated on 4 Sep 2024

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

  1. Christian Catalini, et al. Crypto Policy Needs to Empower Builders, Not Speculators
  2. Elisabeth Carpenter, et al. Why Most Firms Fail to Capitalize on New Technologies
  3. Jordan Bleicher, et al. The Geopolitical Imperative to Upgrade the Dollar
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96 commentaries, Updated on 28 Oct 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. Axel van Trotsenburg Prosperity Requires a Healthy Planet
  2. Mette Frederiksen, et al. How to Mobilize Private Climate Finance
  3. Nadia Calviño, et al. Small-Island Solidarity and Climate Common Sense
Putin's War on Ukraine

468 commentaries, Updated on 18 Oct 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. Marci Shore Shifting the Paradigm in Ukraine
  2. Ana Palacio Ukraine Needs Security Guarantees
  3. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. What Would Victory in Ukraine Look Like?
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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117 commentaries, Updated on 25 Oct 2024

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

  1. Charles Ferguson What Remote Work Can Do for Global Development
  2. Katharina Pistor Outsourcing Our Future to For-Profit AI
  3. Justina Nixon-Saintil Unlocking AI-Powered Learning
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262 commentaries, Updated on 30 Oct 2024

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

  1. Salome Samadashvili The End of Georgia’s European Dream?
  2. Sławomir Sierakowski Polish Democracy’s Winter of Discontent
  3. Tom Ginsburg, et al. Why Another Trump Term Would Be Worse Than the First
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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 End of Georgia’s European Dream?

    Salome Samadashvili

    Initial evidence suggests that the victory of the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party in the recent parliamentary election reflects widespread fraud. If the West fails to support democratic opposition parties in challenging the results, Georgia’s 30-year-old democracy could come to an end.

    urges Western leaders to take steps to halt the country’s slide into authoritarianism.
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    Belarus in the Dock

    Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė & Aarif Abraham explain why Lithuania is requesting an International Criminal Court investigation into its neighbor.
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    Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development

    Jordan Schwartz explains why new instruments must be standardized and integrated into developing countries’ economic policies.
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    No President Can Revive US Manufacturing Employment

    Robert Z. Lawrence explains why there is no going back to the heyday of middle-class factory jobs for low-skilled workers.
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    Is Political Polling Broken?

    Michael A. Bailey urges pollsters to stop thinking in terms of random samples and instead focus on diagnosing non-response bias.
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    Don’t Dismiss the BRICS

    Joschka Fischer thinks it would be a serious mistake for Western strategists to ignore the bloc and what it represents.
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    Can India Become a Developed Economy by Mid-Century?

    Anne O. Krueger urges policymakers to resume key structural reforms and streamline regulations that stifle business activity.
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    Why Many Workers Now Vote Republican

    Eric Posner explains how the failures of neoliberalism came to benefit the traditional party of business.
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    Japan’s Electoral Stalemate

    Takatoshi Ito considers the political and economic implications of the ruling bloc’s loss of its parliamentary majority.

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