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311 commentaries, Updated on 27 Mar 2024

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Jane Kabubo-Mariara Africa’s Prosperity Depends on Achieving Gender Equality
  2. David Miliband Sudan’s Descent into Violence Must Not Be Ignored
  3. Gordon Brown For Nigeria’s Schools, Safety Must Come First
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42 commentaries, Updated on 7 Mar 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the conflict in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

  1. Shlomo Ben-Ami The Untimely Resurrection of the Two-State Solution
  2. Noëlle Lenoir Can UNRWA Officials Be Prosecuted?
  3. Daoud Kuttab Can Marwan Barghouti Be the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?
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17 commentaries, Updated on 25 Mar 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the issues and trends shaping the biggest global election year in history.

  1. Richard Haass America’s Year of Living Dangerously
  2. Connie Hedegaard Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset
  3. Shashi Tharoor Indian Democracy’s Moment of Truth
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125 commentaries, Updated on 27 Mar 2024

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Project Syndicate is highlighting a selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on iss…

  1. Jane Kabubo-Mariara Africa’s Prosperity Depends on Achieving Gender Equality
  2. Nkechi S. Owoo Give Women with Disabilities a Chance
  3. Rudo Kayombo The Big Push African Women Need to Escape Poverty
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28 commentaries, Updated on 28 Feb 2024

In Finance of the Future, Project Syndicate, with support from Circle, brings together leading experts, innovators, regulators, and more to examine th…

  1. Cina Lawson, et al. A Global Cash-Transfer Fund Could End Extreme Poverty
  2. Andrew Sheng, et al. A Stablecoin Pilot in China?
  3. Josh Burek Is Blockchain Ready for Primetime?
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87 commentaries, Updated on 13 Mar 2024

As former Irish President Mary Robinson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu pointed out nearly a decade ago, “climate change is a matter of ju…

  1. Joseph E. Stiglitz The Biden Administration vs. Climate Youth
  2. Bogolo Kenewendo The Case for Mission-Driven Climate Finance
  3. Patrick Guillaumont, et al. Official Development Assistance Must Recognize Countries’ Vulnerabilities
Putin's War on Ukraine

425 commentaries, Updated on 26 Mar 2024

Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory in Ukraine for which it apparently hoped, but a prolonged war of attrition would amount to a different …

  1. Harold James Europe’s High Noon
  2. Omar Ashour Why ISIS Attacked Russia – and Why Russia Blames Ukraine
  3. Joschka Fischer When France and Germany Squabble, Putin Rejoices
The Light Bulb

58 commentaries, Updated on 11 Mar 2024

In The New Enlightenment, Project Syndicate, in partnership with The New Institute, brings together leading experts, academics, practitioners, and pol…

  1. Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Governments Must Shape AI’s Future
  2. Bertrand Badré, et al. How to Democratize AI
  3. Mariana Mazzucato A Progressive Green Growth Narrative
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43 commentaries, Updated on 14 Mar 2024

Activists, campaigners, and other experts consider how to support freedom, justice, and human dignity globally.

  1. Peter Singer Does Religious Freedom Trump Animal Welfare?
  2. Noëlle Lenoir Can UNRWA Officials Be Prosecuted?
  3. Nabil Ahmed Cracks in the New Gilded Age
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78 commentaries, Updated on 26 Mar 2024

PS commentators consider how to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks created by artificial intelligence.

  1. Mubarak Al-Kuwari, et al. A Breakthrough Opportunity for Global Governance
  2. Marietje Schaake, et al. Making Emerging Technologies Safe for Democracy
  3. Carlota Perez What Is AI’s Place in History?
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202 commentaries, Updated on 26 Mar 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the growing threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law around the world.

  1. Federico Fubini Why Is Europe Moving Rightward?
  2. Slavoj Žižek Haiti’s Proud Boys
  3. Jan-Werner Mueller The Zombification of Political Parties
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131 commentaries, Updated on 23 Feb 2024

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Natalie Dunleavy Campbell, et al. The US Is Jeopardizing the Open Internet
  2. Mark Esposito, et al. The Threat of Persuasive AI
  3. Karina Montoya The Google Trial’s Dangerous Secrecy
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    What Can Stop the Shortening of American Lives?

    Michael R. Bloomberg shows how a loss of public trust in public-health professionals is undercutting US life expectancy.
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    American Sinophobia

    Stephen S. Roach warns that fear has driven US policymakers to level a litany of unsubstantiated charges against China.
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    Africa’s Prosperity Depends on Achieving Gender Equality

    Jane Kabubo-Mariara outlines steps policymakers can take to redistribute unpaid domestic work among households and communities.
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    Texas and the Perpetual Crisis of American Federalism

    Alison L. LaCroix

    By asserting its right to pursue an immigration policy at odds with that of the US federal government, Texas is reviving a constitutional debate that recurred throughout the early nineteenth century, culminating in the Civil War. It is an ominous reminder that the perpetuation of the Union can never be taken for granted.

    highlights the constitutional threat posed by the state's attempt to impose its own immigration policy.
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    Europe’s High Noon

    Harold James

    With Ukraine depleted and overstretched, and with Russia posing a security threat to the Baltics and Europe more broadly, diplomatic and strategic coordination is more necessary than it has been since the end of the Cold War. Yet political leaders in Europe and the United States look too weak to rise to the occasion.

    worries that Western political leaders lack the will to take the risky decisions that security demands.
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    A Breakthrough Opportunity for Global Governance

    Mubarak Al-Kuwari, et al. propose new international institutions to confront today’s AI-regulation and peacebuilding challenges.
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    Why Is Europe Moving Rightward?

    Federico Fubini considers why nationalist parties are gaining ground in countries that renounced nationalism decades ago.
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    Who’s Afraid of Price Controls?

    Tom Krebs & Isabella M. Weber explain why Germany's economy is paying dearly for the government's failure to cap energy costs in 2022.
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    How to Save the Pandemic Treaty

    Mariana Mazzucato explains what it will take to prevent or minimize the costs of future contagious outbreaks like COVID-19.

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