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    The US Debt Ceiling Debacle Is Not Over

    Kenneth Rogoff

    The latest last-minute deal to raise the US debt limit does not solve the underlying political problem. On the contrary, with the country on track for a Biden-Trump rematch next year – a contest that Trump just might win – the truce is likely to be short-lived.

     sees little reason to believe the latest last-minute deal will be anything more than a short-lived truce.
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    The Myth of Western Decline

    Chris Patten argues that Chinese leaders’ characterization of liberal democracy as decadent betrays their fear of it.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    Slavoj Žižek sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.
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    Give America a Debt Brake

    R. James Breiding thinks the United States could learn a valuable lesson from a policy Switzerland put in place in 2003.
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    How to Quench the American West’s Thirst

    Jeffrey Frankel argues that eliminating water subsidies and implementing market pricing is better than the alternative.
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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric's coalition for the rapid rise of far right populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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  1. How to Quench the American West’s Thirst
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    How to Quench the American West’s Thirst

    May 29, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel argues that eliminating water subsidies and implementing market pricing is better than the alternative.

  2. Give America a Debt Brake
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    Give America a Debt Brake

    May 29, 2023 R. James Breiding thinks the United States could learn a valuable lesson from a policy Switzerland put in place in 2003.

  3. The Myth of Western Decline
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    The Myth of Western Decline

    May 29, 2023 Chris Patten argues that Chinese leaders’ characterization of liberal democracy as decadent betrays their fear of it.

  4. The US Debt Ceiling Debacle Is Not Over
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    The US Debt Ceiling Debacle Is Not Over

    May 29, 2023 Kenneth Rogoff sees little reason to believe the latest last-minute deal will be anything more than a short-lived truce.

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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    May 29, 2023 Slavoj Žižek sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.

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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen

    Rather than seeing themselves as the arbiters of divine precepts, Supreme Court justices after World War II generally understood that constitutional jurisprudence must respond to the realities of the day. Yet today's conservatives have seized on the legacy of one of the few justices who did not.

     considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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    Keyu Jin on Chinese regulation, innovation, finance, and more

    Keyu Jin laments the loss of private-sector confidence in China, shows why the country could take the lead in cutting-edge technologies, addresses misconceptions about its economic model, and more.
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    The Quad’s Big Moment

    Richard Maude, et al. examine the emerging Indo-Pacific coalition from the perspective of each of its members – and its main rival.
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    India’s Law-of-the-Jungle Raj

    Ashoka Mody considers what the life and death of criminal-politician Atiq Ahmed reveals about the country.
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    Simon Johnson on stablecoins, artificial intelligence, inequality, and more

    Simon Johnson explains why a moratorium on advanced-AI development would do little good, pours cold water on the prevailing techno-optimist narrative, makes the case for scrapping payroll taxes, and more.
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    How Russia Survives

    Federico Fubini & Alexandra Prokopenko explain why the world's toughest-ever sanctions regime must be sharpened – and suggest how to do it.
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