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    Protesting Ethically

    Peter Singer & Martin Skladany apply four tests of proportionality to nonviolent demonstrations in democratic societies.
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    Venice’s Beauty Curse

    Edoardo Campanella marvels at how an extractive tourism industry has crowded out investments in the iconic city’s future.
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    The Enduring Appeal of Live Performance

    Robert Skidelsky ponders why people prefer attending a concert or theater production to watching or hearing it at a distance.
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    A Glimmer of Hope for Afghanistan’s Girls and Women

    Anna Husarska reports on a groundbreaking effort to foster female entrepreneurship in Kabul’s impoverished communities.
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    British Judges Are Carrying Water for China

    Nicholas Reed Langen decries a Hong Kong court ruling in which UK justices upheld the convictions of pro-democracy protesters.
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    The Right to Truth

    Geoff Mulgan outlines how policymakers could reduce the spread of lies, distortions, and misinformation.
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    War Games and Tribal Passions

    Ian Buruma argues that sports nationalism is driven more by a desire for community than notions of blood and soil.
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    The Emancipatory Meaning of the Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremony

    Slavoj Žižek interprets the controversial spectacle as a masterful use of irony to depict what modern Europe stands for.
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    China Shuts Down Its International-Adoption Machine

    Yi Fuxian welcomes the government's apparent recognition that a severe demographic crisis looms.
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    From the Year of Elections to the Year of Governance

    Adam Nelson & Kristen Sample highlight five major challenges reformist governments must confront to minimize populist threats.
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    Africa’s Path to Green Prosperity

    Erik Berglöf highlights the potential that a young population and abundant renewable-energy resources represent.
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    Saving the Planet from Plastics

    Jayati Ghosh explains why recycling alone is not enough to mitigate the health and climate effects of overproduction.
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    What Harris and Trump Will Do

    With less than two months to go until the US presidential election, the candidates’ opposing worldviews, objectives, and priorities – and their implications for international relations, the economy, and democracy – have come into sharper focus. While it is impossible to know exactly what a leader will do once in office, the contours of both a Donald Trump and a Kamala Harris presidency are remarkably well defined.

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    The Big Picture

    PS editors
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    Macron’s Trial by Fire

    Hugo Drochon

    Since the start of the Olympic Summer Games in Paris, Emmanuel Macron has reclaimed the initiative and confronted a political situation that is in many ways unprecedented for a French president. Not only has the center held, but the country may have a return to political stability in its sights.

     reflects on the French president's efforts to maintain control after a painful election season.
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    Kamala Harris’s Liberal Patriotism

    Andrés Velasco & Daniel Brieba explain why the Democratic US presidential candidate's appeal to love of country is good politics.
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    Confronting Africa’s Cost-of-Living Crisis

    Hippolyte Fofack urges governments to rethink constraints on public spending and increase investment in human capital.

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