Welcome to Project Syndicate Podcasts – a hub for conversation on the world’s most pressing issues. On Opinion Has It, host Elmira Bayrasli sits down with leading economists, policymakers, Nobel laureates, academics, and more. Listen and subscribe to all episodes from your favorite podcast app. Find Opinion Has It on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, or via RSS Feed.
Opinion Has ItMay 7, 2019Elmira Bayrasli & William J. Burns
discuss the diplomatic back channels that helped drive the negotiations leading to the Iran nuclear deal, and how they help serve US interests abroad.
Opinion Has ItApr 4, 2019PS editors
follow three young activists as they advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights at the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Opinion Has ItMar 12, 2019Elmira Bayrasli & Aleksandra Dier
discuss what should be done about the foreign women who joined ISIS and now want to return home.
Get unlimited access to OnPoint, the Big Picture, and the entire PS archive of more than 14,000 commentaries, plus our annual magazine, for less than $2 a week.
Forty years after the revolution that ousted the Shah, Iran’s unique political-religious system and government appears strong enough to withstand US pressure and to ride out the country's current economic difficulties. So how should the US minimize the risks to the region posed by the regime?
Across the advanced economies, monetary and fiscal policymakers lack the tools needed to respond to another major downturn and financial crisis. Worse, while the world no longer needs to worry about a hawkish US Federal Reserve strangling growth, it now has an even bigger problem on its hands.
