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347 commentaries, Updated on 21 Jan 2025

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Pascal Lamy, et al. The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap
  2. Hippolyte Fofack Trump Can’t Stop De-Dollarization
  3. Adekeye Adebajo What Trump’s Return Means for Africa
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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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288 commentaries, Updated on 21 Jan 2025

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

  1. Joschka Fischer Trump at the Gates
  2. Koichi Hamada Will US Democracy Survive Trump?
  3. Jan T. Gross An American Catastrophe
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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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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

    predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

    thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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