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  1. tyson115_ Chip SomodevillaGetty Images_local reporters Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    To Protect Democracy, Revive Local Journalism

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca identify promising new models and philanthropic initiatives geared toward supporting independent media.
  2. bartmna1_TED ALJIBEAFP via Getty Images TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images

    Britain’s Turn Against Championing Media Freedom

    James Deane calls on the British government to live up to its promises to support public-interest journalism.
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    PS on Sunday

    A selection of essential PS content from the past seven days, giving you the information and insights you need as you prepare to start the new week.

  4. deloire6_CARLOS ALONZOAFP via Getty Images_jose zamora CARLOS ALONZO/AFP via Getty Images

    Press Freedom on Trial in Guatemala

    Christophe Deloire & Jose C. Zamora calls out authorities for their abuse of the judicial system to intimidate and threaten independent media.
  5. mueller44_William Thomas CainGetty Images_local news philadelphia William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

    Can Local Journalism Be Saved?

    Jan-Werner Mueller concludes that reviving the institution will require abandoning the current focus on material resources.
  6. schiffrin9_ChesnotGetty Images_googlefacebook Chesnot/Getty Images

    Journalism Fights Back

    Anya Schiffrin highlights initiatives to compel the major digital platforms to support public-interest news reporting.
  7. mueller43_ Mark WilsonGetty Images_journalism Mark WilsonGetty Images

    Can Journalists Be Activists?

    Jan-Werner Mueller thinks the traditional debate about the profession’s role in a democracy is largely missing the point.
  8. ressa1_Leon NealGetty Images_journalism Leon Neal/Getty Images

    Tyranny’s Propagandists Are Winning

    Maria Ressa & Nishant Lalwani urge funders and policymakers to commit significant funds to support public-interest journalism.
  9. geybulla1_Mohammed TalateneAnadolu AgencyGetty Images_facebookgaza Mohammed Talatene/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

    Facebook Is Failing Journalists

    Arzu Geybulla says that in the struggle for press freedom under repressive regimes, Meta is squarely on the wrong side.
  1. khrushcheva171_MIKHAIL METZELPOOLAFP via Getty Images_putinkim Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
  2. haykel18_MANDEL NGANAFP via Getty Images_mbs Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
  3. wagner22_Lukas SchulzeGetty Images_pollution Lukas Schulze/Getty Images

    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
  4. mallochbrown17_GIANLUIGI GUERCIAAFP via Getty Images_africawomenpolitics Gianluigi Guercia/AFP via Getty Images

    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
  5. op_yi2_PEDRO PARDOAFP via Getty Images_chinahousing Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

    traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

  7. fischer208_DrAfter123Getty Images_AIhuman DrAfter123/Getty Images

    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
  8. haldar25_BettmannGetty Images_friedmanreagan Bettmann/Getty Images

    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

    looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
  9. delong254_ Samuel CorumGetty Images_january6riot Samuel Corum/Getty Images

    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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