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  1. Cédric O

    Cédric O

    Writing for PS since 2023
    1 Commentary

    Cédric O is a former French secretary of state for the digital economy (2019-22).

  2. Michael O'Boyle

    Michael O'Boyle

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Michael O’Boyle is Director of Electricity Policy at Energy Innovation.

  3. John O'Brennan

    John O'Brennan

    Writing for PS since 2008
    6 Commentaries

    John O’ Brennan is Director of European Studies and a lecturer in European Politics at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM).

  4. Gus O'Donnell

    Gus O'Donnell

    Writing for PS since 2014
    2 Commentaries

    Gus O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary to Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, is now Chairman of Frontier Economics and a member of the UK House of Lords.

  5. Megan O'Donnell

    Megan O'Donnell

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Megan O’Donnell leads the Center for Global Development’s COVID-19 Gender and Development Initiative.

  6. Stephen O'Driscoll

    Stephen O'Driscoll

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Stephen O’Driscoll is Head of Environment, Climate, and Social Policy at the European Investment Bank.

  7. Michael O'Hanlon

    Michael O'Hanlon

    Writing for PS since 2014
    1 Commentary

    Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

  8. Margaret O'Mara

    Margaret O'Mara

    Writing for PS since 2024
    2 Commentaries

    Margaret O’Mara is Professor of American History at the University of Washington and the author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Penguin Press, 2019) and Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005).

  9. Shane O'Mara

    Shane O'Mara

    Writing for PS since 2016
    1 Commentary

    Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator at the Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College, and the author of Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation.

  10. Shannon K. O'Neil

    Shannon K. O'Neil

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Shannon K. O'Neil, Vice President of Studies and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter (Yale University Press, 2023).

  11. Jim O'Neill

    Jim O'Neill

    Writing for PS since 2008
    131 Commentaries

    Jim O’Neill, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and a former UK treasury minister, is a member of the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development.

  12. Tim O'Reilly

    Tim O'Reilly

    Writing for PS since 2021
    5 Commentaries

    Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., is a visiting professor at University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and the author of WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017).

  13. Dara O'Rourke

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Politics at MIT.

  14. Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

    Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

    Writing for PS since 2011
    3 Commentaries

    Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke is Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford.

  15. Fintan O'Toole is the Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University, columnist at the Irish Times, and the author of Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain.  


  1. obstfeld4_Jabin BotsfordThe Washington Post via Getty Images_trumplighthizer Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

    The Dangers of a US Capital Inflow Tax

    Maurice Obstfeld worries that a little-known, highly costly method of deficit reduction is gaining political traction.
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    Europe’s Green Transition Requires More Skilled Workers

    Julie Beaufils urges policymakers to boost the attractiveness of technical vocations by expanding access to apprenticeships.
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    A Monetary and Economic Order Fit for the Twenty-First Century

    Ulrich Volz, et al. identify eight priorities to build a more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable global financial architecture.
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    Putting Africa on the Path to Prosperity

    Mohamed Ould Ghazouani & Ajay Banga urge the G7 to focus on the continent’s future, and on five priorities in particular, at this week’s summit.
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    Anatomy of a Massacre

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    The 1860 massacre of Christians in Damascus holds useful lessons about what it takes to arrest – and recover from – inter-communal violence. But there is a difference between a pogrom and a genocide, and conflating the two can do more harm than good.

    considers what the 1860 massacre of Christians in Damascus can and cannot teach us about preventing genocide.
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    AI: Hope or Hype?

    Whether generative artificial intelligence will do more harm or good to our families, economies, and societies remains an open question. In devising strategies for harnessing the technology, optimism is undoubtedly warranted, but it should not come at the expense of realism.

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    How Denmark Keeps the Far Right at Bay

    Michael Ehrenreich explains how mainstream parties have neutralized the threat of right-wing populists.
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    How Techno-Libertarians Fell in Love with Big Government

    Quinn Slobodian argues Silicon Valley investors are against the state only insofar as it is not enriching them personally.
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    How Chinese Savings Can Support the Global Green Transition

    Daniel Gros urges the EU to welcome cheap low-carbon goods, such as electric vehicles, from China.

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