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  1. Francesco La Camera

    Francesco La Camera

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Francesco La Camera is Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency.

  2. Tony La Viña

    Tony La Viña

    Writing for PS since 2021
    1 Commentary

    Tony La Viña is Associate Director for Climate Policy and International Relations of Manila Observatory of the Philippines.

  3. Alison L. LaCroix

    Alison L. LaCroix

    Writing for PS since 2022
    4 Commentaries

    Alison L. LaCroix, a former member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, is Professor of Law and an associate member of the History Department at the University of Chicago and the author of the forthcoming The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, May 2024).

  4. Gordon LaForge

    Gordon LaForge

    Writing for PS since 2023
    1 Commentary

    Gordon LaForge is a senior policy analyst at New America and a lecturer at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.

  5. Mart Laar

    Mart Laar

    Writing for PS since 2001
    2 Commentaries

    Mart Laar is a former Estonian Prime Minister and now a member of the Estonian National Parliament.

  6. David F. Labaree

    David F. Labaree

    Writing for PS since 2018
    1 Commentary

    David F. Labaree is Professor of Education at Stanford University, and the author of A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education.

  7. Eric Labaye

    Eric Labaye

    Writing for PS since 2013
    3 Commentaries

    Eric Labaye is Chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute.

  8. Marie Laberge

    Marie Laberge

    Writing for PS since 2019
    1 Commentary

    Marie Laberge works with the United Nations Development Programme to support national efforts to measure and monitor governance, peace, and security.

  9. Marion Laboure

    Marion Laboure

    Writing for PS since 2018
    5 Commentaries

    Marion Laboure, a lecturer at Harvard University, is a senior economist at Deutsche Bank Research and the author of Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech (Harvard University Press, 2022).

  10. Wolfram Lacher

    Wolfram Lacher

    Writing for PS since 2009
    1 Commentary

    Wolfram Lacher is a senior analyst covering North Africa at Control Risks, a global business risk consultancy.

  11. Brian Ladd

    Brian Ladd

    Writing for PS since 2010
    1 Commentary

    Brian Ladd, author of Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age, was a visiting professor of urban studies at the University of Oregon in 2009.

  12. Celso Lafer

    Celso Lafer

    Writing for PS since 2004
    1 Commentary

    Celso Lafer, Brazil's Foreign Minister in 1992 and 2001-2002 and Minister of Development, Industry, and Trade in 1999, is now Professor of Law at the University of São Paulo.

  13. Gordon Lafer

    Gordon Lafer

    Writing for PS since 2014
    1 Commentary

    Gordon Lafer is a professor at the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon.

  14. Brigid Laffan

    Brigid Laffan

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Brigid Laffan, an emeritus professor at the European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Center, is a co-chair of the High-Level Advisory Group of the Conference Observatory.

  15. Christine Lagarde

    Christine Lagarde

    Writing for PS since 2009
    14 Commentaries

    Christine Lagarde, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, is President of the European Central Bank. She previously served as France’s finance minister from 2007-2011.

  1. yi15_Kevin FrayerGetty Images_chinababy Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

    China Shuts Down Its International-Adoption Machine

    Yi Fuxian welcomes the government's apparent recognition that a severe demographic crisis looms.
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    From the Year of Elections to the Year of Governance

    Adam Nelson & Kristen Sample highlight five major challenges reformist governments must confront to minimize populist threats.
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    Africa’s Path to Green Prosperity

    Erik Berglöf highlights the potential that a young population and abundant renewable-energy resources represent.
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    Saving the Planet from Plastics

    Jayati Ghosh explains why recycling alone is not enough to mitigate the health and climate effects of overproduction.
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    What Harris and Trump Will Do

    With less than two months to go until the US presidential election, the candidates’ opposing worldviews, objectives, and priorities – and their implications for international relations, the economy, and democracy – have come into sharper focus. While it is impossible to know exactly what a leader will do once in office, the contours of both a Donald Trump and a Kamala Harris presidency are remarkably well defined.

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    The Big Picture

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    Macron’s Trial by Fire

    Hugo Drochon

    Since the start of the Olympic Summer Games in Paris, Emmanuel Macron has reclaimed the initiative and confronted a political situation that is in many ways unprecedented for a French president. Not only has the center held, but the country may have a return to political stability in its sights.

    reflects on the French president's efforts to maintain control after a painful election season.
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    Kamala Harris’s Liberal Patriotism

    Andrés Velasco & Daniel Brieba explain why the Democratic US presidential candidate's appeal to love of country is good politics.
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    Confronting Africa’s Cost-of-Living Crisis

    Hippolyte Fofack urges governments to rethink constraints on public spending and increase investment in human capital.

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