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Democracies Are Not “Backsliding”
Democracies Are Not “Backsliding”
Jan-Werner Mueller thinks the language commonly used to describe the shift toward authoritarianism is hampering solutions. -
American Tactics vs. Chinese Strategy
American Tactics vs. Chinese Strategy
Stephen S. Roach warns that short-termism will never be enough to offset the long-term benefits of strategic thinking. -
Is Chinese Youth Unemployment As Bad As It Looks?
Is Chinese Youth Unemployment As Bad As It Looks?
Nancy Qian argues that the rise in joblessness among young people does not spell economic apocalypse for China. -
Will a Visa Scandal Sink Poland’s Populists?
Will a Visa Scandal Sink Poland’s Populists?
Sławomir Sierakowski wonders whether the ruling party’s base will hear or care about the most recent example of its hypocrisy. -
Auto Strikes and Climate Change
Auto Strikes and Climate Change
Mariana Mazzucato & Damon Silvers explain why the transition to a net-zero economy cannot happen without worker empowerment. -
Internet Scammers and Political Tricksters
Internet Scammers and Political Tricksters
Chris Patten highlights the link between rampant online fraud and the invulnerability of contemporary demagogues. -
Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists
Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists
Yanis Varoufakis worries that the European Central Bank's blunders have revived the far right's political fortunes. -
Why India’s Women Are More Vulnerable to Disasters
Why India’s Women Are More Vulnerable to Disasters
Joyita Roy Chowdhury & Prarthna Agarwal Goel call attention to gender inequalities that exacerbate the effects of floods and other natural catastrophes. -
Financing Our Survival
Financing Our Survival
Vera Songwe explains what it will take to mobilize capital for the net-zero transition worldwide. -
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Internet Scammers and Political Tricksters
Internet Scammers and Political Tricksters
Sep 27, 2023 Chris Patten highlights the link between rampant online fraud and the invulnerability of contemporary demagogues.
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American Tactics vs. Chinese Strategy
American Tactics vs. Chinese Strategy
Sep 27, 2023 Stephen S. Roach warns that short-termism will never be enough to offset the long-term benefits of strategic thinking.
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Will a Visa Scandal Sink Poland’s Populists?
Will a Visa Scandal Sink Poland’s Populists?
Sep 27, 2023 Sławomir Sierakowski wonders whether the ruling party’s base will hear or care about the most recent example of its hypocrisy.
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Democracies Are Not “Backsliding”
Democracies Are Not “Backsliding”
Sep 27, 2023 Jan-Werner Mueller thinks the language commonly used to describe the shift toward authoritarianism is hampering solutions.
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Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists
Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists
Sep 27, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis worries that the European Central Bank's blunders have revived the far right's political fortunes.
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Ashoka Mody on Indian corruption, growth, jobs, and more
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Ashoka Mody explains the roots of the lack of accountability in India, highlights shortcomings in human capital and gender equality, casts doubt on the country’s ability to assume a Chinese-style role in manufacturing, and more. -
Financing Our Survival
Financing Our Survival
Vera Songwe explains what it will take to mobilize capital for the net-zero transition worldwide. -
The Roots of Polish Populism
The Roots of Polish Populism
Sławomir Sierakowski interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross about Law and Justice's electoral successes and hold on power on the eve of Poland's general election. -
Mónica Araya on electric vehicles, US climate policy, the EU-Mercosur trade deal, and more
Mónica Araya on electric vehicles, US climate policy, the EU-Mercosur trade deal, and more
Mónica Araya welcomes progress toward zero-emission transport, laments the fossil-fuel industry’s outsize influence over governments everywhere, argues that European climate action should be based on a people-centered political narrative, and more. -
Chile’s 9/11, Fifty Years Later
Chile’s 9/11, Fifty Years Later
Sebastián Edwards offers a chronicle of the military coup and its morally complicated economic legacy. -
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Whose AI Revolution?
Anu Bradford refutes the argument that democratic governments cannot regulate artificial intelligence effectively.

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