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Trump’s Peace in Our Time

MUNICH – So now Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have met again, this time in the former Russian territory of Alaska. As an outside observer, one...

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Joschka Fischer

Is Trump a BRICS Secret Agent?

LONDON – Much about life under US President Donald Trump’s second administration is mystifying and strange, not least his treatment of the BRICS (...

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Jim O&x27Neill

A Stealth Target of Trump’s Brazil Tariffs

SÃO PAULO – The 50% tariff on many Brazilian exports to the United States is one of the highest rates that President Donald Trump has imposed as...

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Rogerio Studart

Understanding Russia’s Endgame

STOCKHOLM – Many gasped when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov landed in Anchorage, Alaska, for the Trump-Putin summit wearing a sweater with...

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Carl Bildt

An Agenda for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises

NEW YORK – Following the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in June, we reached a breakthrough moment. Governments,...

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Martin Guzman

Adam Smith at 250

MILAN – Next year will mark the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United...

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Michael Spence

Questions for the Fed

NEW YORK – While recent media coverage of the US Federal Reserve has tended to focus on when, and by how much, interest rates will be cut, larger...

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Glenn Hubbard

Will Trump’s Working-Class Base Turn on Him?

ATHENS – America’s Republican Party is something of an outlier among Western political forces. Whereas US Democrats, British Conservatives, and...

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Yanis Varoufakis

Trump’s Alaska Folly

TORONTO – In the ancient world, people spoke of “Ultima Thule,” a mythical land in the extreme north, at the end of the earth. By venturing...

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Timothy Snyder

Small Fiscal Reforms Can Deliver Big Results

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Ana María Ibáñez

The European Union Looks North

BRUSSELS – “There are 12 countries on the waiting list to become members of the European Union,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen...

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Roderick Kefferpütz

Are Central Banks Betraying Their Mandates?

RALEIGH – On August 6, five of the nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to cut interest rates by 25 basis...

15.08.2025 10

Willem H. Buiter

Trump’s Stablecoin Gamble

If Donald Trump’s administration is to be believed, the recent passage of the GENIUS Act – which paves the way for private firms to issue dollar-...

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Ps Editors

Outlaws in Charge

TEL AVIV – Tyrants have gone by many names – princeps, monarch, czar, Führer, caudillo, duce – but they all have a few things in common....

15.08.2025 9

Shlomo Ben-Ami

Starvation in Gaza and Our Global Shame

15.08.2025 20

Binaifer Nowrojee

The True Meaning of Trump’s Tariffs

GENEVA – This summer, US President Donald Trump dropped a tariff hammer on nearly 100 countries, jolting markets, provoking protests in allied...

14.08.2025 20

Carla Norrlöf

The Age of AI Soft Power

TOKYO – AI leaders like OpenAI and DeepMind see themselves as being in a race to build artificial general intelligence (AGI): a model capable of...

14.08.2025 10

Ren Ito

Is Putin Ready to Make a Ukraine Peace Deal?

NEW YORK – If US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have one thing in common, it is that neither can be trusted. Trump...

14.08.2025 9

Nina L. Khrushcheva

AI Is a Terrible Therapist

BOCHUM – In January, the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced that it had backed Slingshot AI, the world’s first foundation model for...

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Marc Augustin

Russia Is Losing the South Caucasus

BAKU – The peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, announced recently at the US White House, is perhaps the clearest sign yet that Russian...