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    Venezuela’s New Dawn

    María Corina Machado

    On July 28, Venezuelans will head to the polls to elect their next president. In December, María Corina Machado, the woman leading the opposition’s campaign, wrote that Venezuelans have set their sights on an ambitious path toward freedom and prosperity.

     urges the international community to support and help accelerate the country’s democratic transition.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    The Factors Behind US Investor Confidence

    Mohamed A. El-Erian thinks an accommodative monetary policy is becoming increasingly important for US investors.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.
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    Diplomacy Could Help Revive Democracy in Venezuela

    Roberto Patiño urges the international community to help ensure a free and fair presidential election in July.
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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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  1. In Praise of First-Past-the-Post
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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Jul 26, 2024 Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.

  2. Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Jul 26, 2024 Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.

  3. Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Jul 26, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.

  4. Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Jul 26, 2024 Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.

  5. Will AI Kill Off Money?
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jul 26, 2024 Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.

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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    Mordecai Kurz on market power, Big Tech, antitrust, and more

    Mordecai Kurz explains how technology firms abuse patent law to establish and preserve monopolies, criticizes the US Supreme Court’s approach to market power, sheds light on the relationship between innovation and inequality, and more.
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    The Euro and Its Imperial Ancestors

    Victoria Gierok draws lessons from earlier experiments with common currencies across disparate polities and economies.
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    The Way Forward for Ukraine’s Economy

    Joseph E. Stiglitz & Andrew Kosenko offer a roadmap for guiding the country's recovery and reconstruction during and after the war.
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    Joseph E. Stiglitz on inflation, freedom, neoliberalism, and more

    Joseph E. Stiglitz highlights four inflation risks associated with another Donald Trump administration, explains what US Republicans get wrong about freedom, identifies the principles that should guide a post-neoliberal agenda, and more.
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    The Decline and Fall of the Petrodollar?

    Carla Norrlöf considers whether Saudi Arabia would ever move away from invoicing its oil trade in US dollars.

It is both the best and the worst of times for democracy – or at least for voting. Although a record-breaking four billion people across 76 countries will have cast ballots in elections this year, democratic institutions are increasingly under strain, and leading watchdogs warn of a broad-based global trend toward “autocratization.”

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    The Dead Hand of Neoliberalism Is Blocking Green Growth

    Laura Carvalho sees rich countries pursuing industrial strategies while poorer countries are prevented from following suit.
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    Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals

    John W. McArthur & Zia Khan urge political, business, and civil-society leaders to foster the big ideas needed to meet the 2030 targets.
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    Fighting Climate Change Requires a Different Mindset

    Sonia Guajajara thinks the rest of the world can learn a lot from how indigenous peoples relate to nature.

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  1. Andrés Velasco In Praise of First-Past-the-Post
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  3. Yanis Varoufakis Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options
  4. Carlos Alvarado-Quesada Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

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  4. Emmanuel Macron, et al. A Shining Example of Successful Multilateralism

  1. Lucrezia Reichlin Can Central Banks Still Go Green?
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  3. John W. McArthur, et al. Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals
  4. Sonia Guajajara Fighting Climate Change Requires a Different Mindset

  1. Jean-Pierre Landau Will AI Kill Off Money?
  2. Martin Beraja, et al. China Is Exporting Its AI Surveillance State
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  4. Diane Coyle The Digital Economy’s Growing Time Tax

  1. Dennis J. Snower A New Worldview for Troubled Times
  2. Slavoj Žižek We Are All Biomass
  3. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
  4. Gordon Brown What to Do About the Taliban’s Gender Apartheid

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

  1. Paola Subacchi A Growth Agenda for the G20
  2. Adekeye Adebajo Africa’s Hobbled Hegemons
  3. Linguère Mously Mbaye Rethinking How to Address Irregular Migration from Africa

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
  2. Antonio Zappulla To Protect Democracy, Protect Exiled Journalists
  3. Jodie Ginsberg Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom

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  1. Winnie Byanyima, et al. How to Protect the World from the Next Pandemic
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  3. Mariana Mazzucato The Economics of Health for All