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  1. Chris Patten

    Chris Patten

    Writing for PS since 2000
    164 Commentaries

    Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and a former EU commissioner for external affairs, is Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the author of The Hong Kong Diaries (Allen Lane, 2022).

  2. Ana Palacio

    Ana Palacio

    Writing for PS since 2011
    158 Commentaries

    Ana Palacio, a former minister of foreign affairs of Spain and former senior vice president and general counsel of the World Bank Group, is a visiting lecturer at Georgetown University.

  3. Jean Pisani-Ferry

    Jean Pisani-Ferry

    Writing for PS since 2010
    146 Commentaries

    Jean Pisani-Ferry, a senior fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel and a senior non-resident fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, holds the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa chair at the European University Institute.

  4. Minxin Pei

    Minxin Pei

    Writing for PS since 2006
    100 Commentaries

    Minxin Pei, Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, is a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

  5. Edmund S. Phelps

    Edmund S. Phelps

    Writing for PS since 1997
    37 Commentaries

    Edmund S. Phelps, the 2006 Nobel laureate in economics and Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, is author of Mass Flourishing and co-author of Dynamism.

  6. Katharina Pistor

    Katharina Pistor

    Writing for PS since 2000
    34 Commentaries

    Katharina Pistor, Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, is the author of The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Princeton University Press, 2019).

  7. Eric Posner

    Eric Posner

    Writing for PS since 2019
    30 Commentaries

    Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  8. Eswar Prasad

    Eswar Prasad

    Writing for PS since 2006
    27 Commentaries

    Eswar Prasad, Professor of Economics in the Dyson School at Cornell University, is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance (Harvard University Press, 2021).

  9. Volker Perthes

    Volker Perthes

    Writing for PS since 2004
    25 Commentaries

    Volker Perthes is Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Sudan.

  10. Raj Persaud

    Raj Persaud

    Writing for PS since 2017
    19 Commentaries

    Raj Persaud is a psychiatrist and author of The Mental Vaccine for COVID-19 (Amberley Publishing, 2021).

  11. Thitinan Pongsudhirak

    Thitinan Pongsudhirak

    Writing for PS since 2005
    16 Commentaries

    Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science, is a senior fellow at its Institute of Security and International Studies.

  12. Yannos Papantoniou

    Yannos Papantoniou

    Writing for PS since 2011
    15 Commentaries

    Yannos Papantoniou was Greece’s Economy and Finance Minister from 1994 to 2001. He is currently President of the Center for Progressive Policy Research, an independent think-tank.

  13. Andrei Piontkovsky

    Andrei Piontkovsky

    Writing for PS since 2006
    13 Commentaries

    Andrei Piontkovsky is a Russian political scientist and a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.

  14. Jiří Pehe

    Jiří Pehe

    Writing for PS since 2001
    11 Commentaries

    Jiří Pehe, once Chief Political Advisor to former Czech President Václav Havel, is a political analyst and Director of New York University in Prague.

  15. Thomas I. Palley

    Thomas I. Palley

    Writing for PS since 2007
    11 Commentaries

    Dr. Thomas I. Palley is an economist living in Washington DC.

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    Why the EU’s New Migration Pact Matters

    Ana Palacio applauds the pragmatic coalition-building, especially by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, that enabled the deal.
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    AI Needs UN Oversight

    Peter G. Kirchschläger calls for the creation of a watchdog – similar to the IAEA – that employs a human rights-based approach.
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    The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

    Brahma Chellaney argues that the unprecedented US and European sanctions against Russia are backfiring.
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    Canceling Palestine

    Slavoj Žižek

    Current debates about Israeli policy are rife with double standards, leading to absurd decisions like Germany’s recent cancellation of a pro-Palestinian gathering. By quashing legitimate speech and assembly, an Israel-aligned establishment risks inciting precisely the kind of anti-Semitism that it wants to prevent.

    worries that the double standards applied on Israel’s behalf will lead to an anti-Semitic backlash.
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    America’s Childcare Is Unfit for the Postmodern Age

    Bruce Ackerman urges US President Joe Biden to put universal preschool at the center of his re-election campaign.
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    History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

    Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson find policy lessons for the 2020s in the work of the early-nineteenth-century economist David Ricardo.
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    Trump and the Risk of a US Debt Default

    William L. Silber thinks the former president would be even more reckless if awarded another term this year.
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    Europe’s Red Tape Is Helping Russia

    Laurence Boone & Nicu Popescu propose a European Defense Production Act to help fast-track processes for public procurement and spending.
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    What to Look for in Trump’s First Trial

    Eric Posner

    The intricate legal issues and colorful characters in Donald Trump's criminal trials will undoubtedly keep the media and the viewing public enraptured for months to come. But when it comes to the 2024 election, all that really matters is how the defendant appears to a narrow sliver of undecided voters.

    points out that optics, more than the law or the facts, will be what matters most for the election.

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