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The US Election 2020

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  1. boskin74_Alex WongGetty Images_biden neera tanden Alex Wong/Getty Images

    What the Biden Presidency Means for US Economic Policy

    Michael J. Boskin examines the three factors that will determine the new administration's room for maneuver.
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    America’s Normalcy Delusion

    Jorge G. Castañeda criticizes US President-elect Joe Biden's pursuit of the status quo ante – and offers an alternate approach.
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    Trump’s Right-Wing Rainbow Coalition

    Yasheng Huang thinks psychology, rather than demographics, provides the key to contemporary US electoral politics.
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    America Passed the Trump Stress Test

    Eric Posner argues that the past four years of norm-breaking have strengthened, not weakened, democratic institutions.
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    Can Joe Biden’s America Be Trusted?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. thinks the president-elect must allay US allies' fears that another Donald Trump could emerge in 2024 or 2028.
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    Miami Trumps Biden

    Ricardo Hausmann & José Ramon Morales-Arilla explain the Democratic Party's disastrous 2020 election performance in the city, and how it can recover there.
  8. patten121_Samuel CorumGetty Images_mitch mcconnell Samuel Corum/Getty Images

    America’s Fifth Column

    Chris Patten argues that GOP leaders and their media enablers are subverting the cause of liberal democracy everywhere.
  9. pistor17_Caroline Brehman-PoolGetty Images_us constitution Caroline Brehman/Pool/Getty Images

    Reckoning with American Democracy’s Enemies Within

    Katharina Pistor argues that Republican efforts to discredit the US election must not be dismissed as mere partisan cynicism.
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    What the G20 Can Do for Green Growth

    Mariana Mazzucato & Vera Songwe explain how the world’s premier economic grouping can keep global climate targets on track.
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    An Israeli Victory May Not Bring Peace

    Carl Bildt sees the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War as a cautionary tale for the current conflict.
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    Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First

    Kingsley Moghalu foresees home-grown educational institutions equipping the continent’s leaders with public-policy skills.
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    The Key to Unlocking the Benefits of Trade

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala & Makhtar Diop

    The finance underpinning supply chains is crucial, but too many small businesses in emerging and developing economies cannot access it, cutting them off from the benefits of global trade. Plucking this relatively low-hanging fruit can drive progress toward many development goals at once.

    show how a lack of supply-chain finance keeps many businesses and economies on the sidelines.
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    What Causes Prosperity?

    Jeffrey Frankel shows how this year's Nobel Prize-winning economists tackled a once-insoluble problem.
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    Ukraine’s Post-Colonial Future

    Michael Ignatieff believes that what is at stake in the war with Russia is the fate of the last European imperialism.
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    Donald Trump’s Tariffs Would Hurt US Workers and Businesses

    Maurice Obstfeld shows why targeting an overall reduction in imports would reduce America’s real wages and national income.
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    Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief

    Bogolo Kenewendo & Patrick Njoroge propose large-scale relief to ensure that the continent’s countries can invest in climate action.
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Diane Coyle advocates a new public philosophy that rejects viewing “government” and “market” as opposites, explains why time-use data must shape technological development, warns that policymakers are devising AI regulation in a thick conceptual fog, and more.

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