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309 commentaries, Updated on 15 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. Gordon Brown For Nigeria’s Schools, Safety Must Come First
  2. Rudo Kayombo The Big Push African Women Need to Escape Poverty
  3. Roselyn Fosuah Adjei Carbon Credits Hold the Key to Combating Deforestation
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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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16 commentaries, Updated on 18 Mar 2024

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

  1. Connie Hedegaard Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset
  2. Shashi Tharoor Indian Democracy’s Moment of Truth
  3. Michael J. Boskin The Anatomy of the Biden-Trump Rematch
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124 commentaries, Updated on 15 Mar 2024

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

  1. Nkechi S. Owoo Give Women with Disabilities a Chance
  2. Rudo Kayombo The Big Push African Women Need to Escape Poverty
  3. Nadia Calviño, et al. The Economic Power of Gender Equality
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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

421 commentaries, Updated on 6 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. Anastassia Fedyk, et al. No, Russia Is Not Winning
  2. Ian Buruma Alexei Navalny Did Not Die for Nothing
  3. Robin Brooks, et al. Putin’s Silk Road Around Sanctions
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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76 commentaries, Updated on 11 Mar 2024

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

  1. Cory Doctorow The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley
  2. Aswath Damodaran Navigating the AI Hype Cycle
  3. Carlota Perez What Is AI’s Place in History?
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201 commentaries, Updated on 18 Mar 2024

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

  1. Slavoj Žižek Haiti’s Proud Boys
  2. Jan-Werner Mueller The Zombification of Political Parties
  3. Mordecai Kurz How Capitalism Became a Threat to Democracy
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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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    A Big Defeat for Big Tech

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Tech companies know that if there is an open, democratic debate about data security, consumers’ concerns about digital safeguards will win out. And while the industry's lobbyists tried to ensure that no such debate could ever occur, one of their more cynical moves has now been exposed and thwarted.

    details how the industry tried to slip extraordinary protections against regulation into US trade agreements.
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    Haiti’s Proud Boys

    Slavoj Žižek

    If we measure a failed state by the cracks in the edifice of its power, reflected in brewing ideological civil wars, deadlocked assemblies, and increasingly insecure public spaces, we must recognize that the United States is not so unlike Haiti. Both have given rise to violent gangs with political ambitions.

    warns that rich Western democracies are not immune to politically motivated gang violence.
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    Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset

    Connie Hedegaard emphasizes the importance of stability amid persistent economic and geopolitical crises.
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    The Truth About US Immigration

    Nancy Qian warns that overheated campaign-season rhetoric is dangerously polarizing and ultimately self-defeating.
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    The Zombification of Political Parties

    Jan-Werner Mueller argues that Donald Trump’s capture of the GOP’s organizational machinery recalls authoritarian tactics elsewhere.
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    The Economic Consequences of Legal Behavior

    Kaushik Basu highlights the potential benefits of emphasizing adherence to the spirit of laws, if not their letter.
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    For Nigeria’s Schools, Safety Must Come First

    Gordon Brown writes that the latest mass abduction of students underscores the dilemma facing parents throughout the country.
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    Give Women with Disabilities a Chance

    Nkechi S. Owoo explains what is needed to protect and empower one of the world’s most vulnerable demographic groups.
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    How Capitalism Became a Threat to Democracy

    Mordecai Kurz examines the economic policies and market dynamics that have ushered in America's Second Gilded Age.

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