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  1. Kandeh Yumkella is a former United Nations under-secretary-general and a former special representative of the secretary-general for Sustainable Energy for All.

  2. Viktor Yushchenko

    Viktor Yushchenko

    Writing for PS since 2000
    2 Commentaries

    Victor Yushchenko is a former president of Ukraine (2005-10).

  3. Yevgeny Yasin

    Yevgeny Yasin

    Writing for PS since 2001
    2 Commentaries

    Yevgeny Yasin, a former Russian Minister for the Economy under President Yeltsin, is Research director at the Supreme School of Economics in Moscow.

  4. Grigory Yavlinsky

    Grigory Yavlinsky

    Writing for PS since 2002
    4 Commentaries

    Grigory Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko.

  5. Shunli Yao

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Shunli Yao is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Beijing.

  6. Michael Young

    Michael Young

    Writing for PS since 2005
    4 Commentaries

    Michael Young is the opinion editor of the Daily Star newspaper and the author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle.

  7. Pan Yue

    Pan Yue

    Writing for PS since 2006
    1 Commentary

    Pan Yue is a former Chinese deputy minister of environment.

  8. A.B. Yehoshua

    A.B. Yehoshua

    Writing for PS since 2008
    11 Commentaries

    A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s preeminent novelists. His latest book is Friendly Fire.

  9. Gary Yohe

    Gary Yohe

    Writing for PS since 2008
    2 Commentaries

    Gary Yohe is Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University.

  10. Igor Yurgens

    Writing for PS since 2008
    1 Commentary

    Igor Yurgens is Chairman of the Board of the Modern Development Institute.

  11. H P. Young

    Writing for PS since 2008
    1 Commentary

    H. Peyton Young is Professor of Economics at Oxford University and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

  12. Yoon Young-kwan

    Yoon Young-kwan

    Writing for PS since 2008
    30 Commentaries

    Yoon Young-kwan, a former South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade, is Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

  13. Irina Yasina

    Writing for PS since 2008
    2 Commentaries

    Irina Yasina is an analyst at the Institute of Transitional Economy, a weekly economic commentator for RIA Novosti, and a representative of the Open Russia Foundation.

  14. Mohammed Yaghi

    Mohammed Yaghi

    Writing for PS since 2009
    1 Commentary

    Mohammad Yaghi is a Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

  1. palacio156_ Georg Moritzpicture alliance via Getty Images_immigation Georg Moritz/picture alliance via Getty Images

    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.
  2. kirchschlager1_Fatih AktasAnadolu Agency via Getty Images_AI Fatih AktasAnadolu Agency via Getty Images

    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.
  4. zizek29_Sebastian Gollnowpicture alliance via Getty Images_palestine congress germany Sebastian Gollnowpicture alliance via Getty Images

    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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