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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.
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    America’s Fifth Column

    Chris Patten argues that GOP leaders and their media enablers are subverting the cause of liberal democracy everywhere.
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    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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    A Big Defeat for Big Tech

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Tech companies know that if there is an open, democratic debate about data security, consumers’ concerns about digital safeguards will win out. And while the industry's lobbyists tried to ensure that no such debate could ever occur, one of their more cynical moves has now been exposed and thwarted.

    details how the industry tried to slip extraordinary protections against regulation into US trade agreements.
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    Haiti’s Proud Boys

    Slavoj Žižek

    If we measure a failed state by the cracks in the edifice of its power, reflected in brewing ideological civil wars, deadlocked assemblies, and increasingly insecure public spaces, we must recognize that the United States is not so unlike Haiti. Both have given rise to violent gangs with political ambitions.

    warns that rich Western democracies are not immune to politically motivated gang violence.
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    Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset

    Connie Hedegaard emphasizes the importance of stability amid persistent economic and geopolitical crises.
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    The Truth About US Immigration

    Nancy Qian warns that overheated campaign-season rhetoric is dangerously polarizing and ultimately self-defeating.
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    The Zombification of Political Parties

    Jan-Werner Mueller argues that Donald Trump’s capture of the GOP’s organizational machinery recalls authoritarian tactics elsewhere.
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    The Economic Consequences of Legal Behavior

    Kaushik Basu highlights the potential benefits of emphasizing adherence to the spirit of laws, if not their letter.
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    For Nigeria’s Schools, Safety Must Come First

    Gordon Brown writes that the latest mass abduction of students underscores the dilemma facing parents throughout the country.
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    Give Women with Disabilities a Chance

    Nkechi S. Owoo explains what is needed to protect and empower one of the world’s most vulnerable demographic groups.
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    How Capitalism Became a Threat to Democracy

    Mordecai Kurz examines the economic policies and market dynamics that have ushered in America's Second Gilded Age.

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