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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.
  2. castaneda75_ROBERTO SCHMIDTAFP via Getty Images_joe biden Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images

    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.
  5. posner7_ BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIAFP via Getty Images_trump oval office Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

    America Passed the Trump Stress Test

    Eric Posner argues that the past four years of norm-breaking have strengthened, not weakened, democratic institutions.
  6. nye212_Mark MakelaGetty Images_joe biden Mark Makela/Getty Images

    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.
  7. hausmann90_ GASTON DE CARDENASAFP via Getty Images_latinos for trump Gaston de Cardenas/AFP via Getty Images

    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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    Countering Trump’s Politics of Fear

    Koichi Hamada calls for a new set of policies that responds to, rather than dismisses, US voters’ legitimate fears.
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    Where Are the Democrats?

    Reed Galen lambasts the party for sitting by and watching America implode, in the misguided hope of winning the midterms.
  3. moyo34_Spencer PlattGetty Images_NYSE Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Signs of a US Recession

    Dambisa Moyo catalogues several indicators suggesting that the world's largest economy is headed for a slump.
  4. goldberg32_Spencer PlattGetty Images_USshipping Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Trump’s Trade War

    Less than two months into his second presidency, Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs on America’s three largest trading partners, with much more to come. This strategy not only lacks any credible theoretical foundations; it is putting the US on a path toward irrevocable economic and geopolitical decline.

  5. ruf1_MANAURE QUINTEROAFP via Getty Images_data center Manaure Quintero/AFP via Getty Images

    Why Frugal AI Alone Won’t Fix AI’s Energy Problem

    Boris Ruf explains why shifting the responsibility for reducing AI’s carbon footprint to end users is counterproductive.
  6. GettyImages-2176801438 TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP via Getty Images

    The Global South’s Path to Economic Resilience

    Anwar Ibrahim

    Today's profound global uncertainty is not some accident of history or consequence of values-free technologies. Rather, it reflects the will of rival great powers that continue to ignore the seminal economic and social changes underway in other parts of the world.

    explains how Malaysia and other middle powers are navigating increasingly uncertain geopolitical terrain.
  7. buchholz23_UCGGettyImages_ozempic_wegovy UCG/Getty Images

    America’s “HIP” Economy

    Todd G. Buchholz sees developments and breakthroughs in health, information, and power as grounds for optimism.
  8. velasco157_Robert GauthierLos Angeles Times via Getty Images_USborder Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

    Andrés Velasco reflects on the tragic fate of the country that took him in as a teenage refugee from Augusto Pinochet's Chile.
  9. chellaney185_Charly TriballeauGettyImages_unga_russia_ukraine_vote Charly Triballeau/Getty Images

    The Global Divide Over the Ukraine War

    Brahma Chellaney urges all parties to adopt a realistic approach to a deadlocked conflict and negotiate accordingly.

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