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  1. Lilian Coral
    Lilian Coral

    Writing for PS since 2025
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    Lilian Coral is Head of New America’s Open Technology Institute and Vice President of the Technology and Democracy Programs.

  2. Global Coal Hypocrisy

    Global Coal Hypocrisy

    Dec 3, 2021 Shashi Tharoor rejects the widespread criticism of India following the recent COP26 climate-change conference.

  3. PS Events: AI Action Summit 2025
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    Don’t miss our next event, taking place at the AI Action Summit in Paris. Register now, and watch live on February 10 as leading thinkers consider what effective AI governance demands.

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  4. Dethroning King Coal

    Dethroning King Coal

    Aug 6, 2013 Peter Singer on why the world needs to move away from coal.

  5. Coal and Corruption

    Coal and Corruption

    Oct 16, 2014 Marina Lou shines a light on the coal industry's corrupting influence.

  6. King Coal’s Pyrrhic Victory

    King Coal’s Pyrrhic Victory

    Aug 4, 2010 Daniel Gros

  7. King Coal’s Climate Challenge

    King Coal’s Climate Challenge

    Nov 19, 2013 Andrew Steer provides a reality check on the climate-change implications of continued reliance on coal power.

  8. Chinese Coal Cuts

    Chinese Coal Cuts

    Apr 2, 2015 Mark L. Clifford praises the country's progress toward reducing carbon-dioxide emissions.

  9. King Coal’s Climate Policy

    King Coal’s Climate Policy

    Oct 20, 2009 Jeffrey D. Sachs

  10. Africa Must Choose Renewables Over Coal

    Africa Must Choose Renewables Over Coal

    Feb 10, 2020 Carlos Lopes makes an economic case for speeding up the continent’s transition to a low-carbon economy.

  1. rodrik231_Andrej IvanovGettyImages_us_canda_border Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images

    How Not to Respond to Trump’s Tariffs

    Dani Rodrik advises America’s trade partners not to embrace retaliation, because that would harm mainly themselves.
  2. landau5_Thierry MonasseGettyImages_eu_competitiveness_compass Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

    Europe Found Its Values and Lost Its Way

    Jean-Pierre Landau

    European integration – and the stability and prosperity it supports – has always depended on a pragmatic, incremental approach. If the EU is to navigate today’s challenging geopolitical environment, it must again embrace this approach, rather than continue to allow high-level principles to dictate policy.

    warns that the EU’s focus on high-level principles is undermining its economic dynamism and global influence.
  3. cferguson4_Patrick T. FallonGettyImages_jensen_huang Patrick T. Fallon/Getty Images

    The Crisis in Western AI Is Real

    Charles Ferguson

    Given the risks involved in the race for AI dominance, maintaining a strong lead within democratic advanced economies justifies a public-private strategic mobilization on the scale of the Manhattan Project. Yet the West is doing the opposite, largely owing to its own AI industry’s arrogance, shortsightedness, and greed.

    thinks the US industry bears a considerable share of the blame for China’s DeepSeek breakthrough.
  4. singer239_Andrew HarnikGetty Images_americafirst Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

    “America First” in Action

    Peter Singer assesses the damage Donald Trump has already done to long-term US interests since returning to the White House.
  5. varoufakis124_Luke SharrettGettyImages_palantir_demo Luke Sharrett/Getty Images

    Technofeudalism Is War’s Handmaiden

    Yanis Varoufakis explains how the rise of cloud capital is steering the world toward well-known strategic traps.
  6. buiter54_FABRICE COFFRINIAFP via Getty Images_swissnationalbank Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

    The Positive Case for Negative Rates

    Willem H. Buiter & Ebrahim Rahbari see the widely scorned monetary-policy tool as a necessary option in the absence of fiscal alternatives.
  7. ahzhang20_PETER CATTERALLAFP via Getty Images_deepseek Peter Catterall/AFP via Getty Images

    Will DeepSeek Upend US Tech Dominance?

    Angela Huyue Zhang says the firm’s disruption of the AI industry is about market – not great-power – competition.
  8. buruma222_Anna MoneymakerGettyImages_donald_trump_cross Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

    Breaking US Democracy Beyond Repair

    Ian Buruma warns that Donald Trump’s efforts to tear down America’s “civic religion” will be difficult to reverse.
  9. patten172_Scott OlsonGetty Images_trump Scott Olson/Getty Images

    Can the Liberal International Order Survive Without America?

    Chris Patten urges Western countries to safeguard the institutions that have underpinned their postwar stability.

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