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303 commentaries, Updated on 13 Feb 2024

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Colin Coleman A Marshall Plan for Africa
  2. Adekeye Adebajo West Africa’s Brexit Moment Could Fuel Regional Turmoil
  3. Mahmoud Mohieldin, et al. Somalia Has Turned a Corner
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40 commentaries, Updated on 16 Feb 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the conflict in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

  1. Daoud Kuttab Can Marwan Barghouti Be the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?
  2. Carla Norrlöf Settler Sanctions and the Liberal International Order
  3. Yun Sun Why China Won’t Fight the Houthis
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28 commentaries, Updated on 2 Jan 2024

PS commentators consider the challenges and opportunities presented by the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai.

  1. Antara Haldar Look East to Fix Climate Governance
  2. Laurence Tubiana, et al. The IMF Needs to Lead on Climate Finance
  3. Gernot Wagner How to Assess the Outcome of COP28
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119 commentaries, Updated on 16 Jan 2024

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Project Syndicate is highlighting a selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on iss…

  1. Ashwini Deshpande Are Social Norms Really the Main Cause of Low Female Employment?
  2. Nisha Arunatilake Sri Lanka’s Debt Restructuring Is Hurting Older Women
  3. Ngaire Woods Saving Representative Democracy from Online Trolls
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25 commentaries, Updated on 9 Feb 2024

In Finance of the Future, Project Syndicate, with support from Circle, brings together leading experts, innovators, regulators, and more to examine th…

  1. Steve Kaczynski, et al. The Rise of Consumer Crypto
  2. Ian Ayres, et al. FTX Was Never Really Bankrupt
  3. Willem H. Buiter A Farewell to Cash
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85 commentaries, Updated on 6 Feb 2024

As former Irish President Mary Robinson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu pointed out nearly a decade ago, “climate change is a matter of ju…

  1. Patrick Guillaumont, et al. Official Development Assistance Must Recognize Countries’ Vulnerabilities
  2. Monique Barbut, et al. Realizing the Potential of the Climate Loss and Damage Fund
  3. Mariana Mazzucato A Progressive Green Growth Narrative
Putin's War on Ukraine

412 commentaries, Updated on 14 Feb 2024

Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory in Ukraine for which it apparently hoped, but a prolonged war of attrition would amount to a different …

  1. Anastassia Fedyk, et al. Western Technology Firms Must Stop Supplying Russia’s War Machine
  2. Philippe Legrain Europe Must Rearm Now
  3. Richard Haass Will Ukraine Survive?
The Light Bulb

57 commentaries, Updated on 7 Feb 2024

In The New Enlightenment, Project Syndicate, in partnership with The New Institute, brings together leading experts, academics, practitioners, and pol…

  1. Bertrand Badré, et al. How to Democratize AI
  2. Mariana Mazzucato A Progressive Green Growth Narrative
  3. Dani Rodrik Confronting Our Four Biggest Economic Challenges
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40 commentaries, Updated on 7 Feb 2024

Activists, campaigners, and other experts consider how to support freedom, justice, and human dignity globally.

  1. Carla Norrlöf Settler Sanctions and the Liberal International Order
  2. Adam Michnik interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross The Redemocratization of Poland
  3. Gordon Brown Britain Is Turning Its Back on International Law
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63 commentaries, Updated on 15 Feb 2024

PS commentators consider how to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks created by artificial intelligence.

  1. S. Alex Yang, et al. The Case for Regulating Generative AI Through Common Law
  2. Bertrand Badré, et al. How to Democratize AI
  3. Nouriel Roubini Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Stupidity
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191 commentaries, Updated on 14 Feb 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the growing threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law around the world.

  1. Adeel Malik Pakistan’s Middle-Class Rage Against Military Rule
  2. Edward B. Foley, et al. How to Depolarize American Politics
  3. Daniela Schwarzer Germany’s Dangerous Alternatives
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130 commentaries, Updated on 3 Jan 2024

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Mark Esposito, et al. The Threat of Persuasive AI
  2. Karina Montoya The Google Trial’s Dangerous Secrecy
  3. Haaris Mateen, et al. What Google and Facebook Owe News Publishers
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    The Lonesome Death of Alexei Navalny

    Nina L. Khrushcheva

    From leading protests against the rigged parliamentary elections of 2011 to investigating the corruption of Russia’s elites to seeking to unseat Presdient Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny was relentless in his nearly two-decade-long campaign against corruption in and around the Kremlin. Putin responded as any Russian despot would.

    has no doubt that, directly or indirectly, it was the Kremlin that killed the imprisoned opposition leader.
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    America’s Steel Madness

    Anne O. Krueger explains why opposition to Nippon Steel's acquisition of US Steel is deeply misguided.
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    Can Marwan Barghouti Be the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?

    Daoud Kuttab thinks the imprisoned Fatah leader could be the key to reviving the two-state solution.
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    What Corporations Need to Know About Public Health

    Tom Achoki describes a framework for understanding health systems that should guide investment and interventions.
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    What Was Capitalism?

    James Livingston asks whether those at the commanding heights of today's economy are steering us toward feudalism or fatuousness.
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    Reducing Plastic Pollution Requires Local Remedies

    Mirei Endara de Heras explains why on-the-ground initiatives to remove waste must complement top-down efforts to curb production.
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    The Case for Regulating Generative AI Through Common Law

    S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang propose a regulatory framework that is both adaptable and tailored to specific contexts.
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    Why Is the Maldives Spurning India?

    Shashi Tharoor worries that the island nation is becoming a Chinese client and nurturing Islamist radicalism.
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    Pakistan’s Middle-Class Rage Against Military Rule

    Adeel Malik explains how economic dissatisfaction fueled the electoral backlash against the country’s leadership.

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