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Answering Trump’s United Nations Challenge

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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

“America First” Accounting Standards?

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Howard Davies

When Governments Put a Price on Everything

When Governments Put a Price on Everything

FRANKFURT – US President Donald Trump recently announced that professional work visas (H-1Bs) for the United States will now cost sponsoring...

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Katharina Pistor

Claudia Sheinbaum’s Uneven First Year

Claudia Sheinbaum’s Uneven First Year

MEXICO CITY – On October 1, Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, will begin her second year in office. While not necessarily coming...

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Jorge G. Castañeda

Robert Redford and the Leadership America Has Lost

Robert Redford and the Leadership America Has Lost

TORONTO – In an America splintered by culture wars and, increasingly, by targeted violence, Robert Redford somehow belonged to everyone. Might his...

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Carla Norrlöf

China Plans, America Reacts

China Plans, America Reacts

NEW HAVEN – China’s leaders are hard at work putting the finishing touches on the country’s 15th Five-Year Plan. Meanwhile, since the beginning...

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Stephen S. Roach

With America Out, the Rest of the West Must Rise

With America Out, the Rest of the West Must Rise

KUALA LUMPUR – For decades after World War II, it was difficult to imagine the geopolitical West – and the rules-based international order more...

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Chin-Huat Wong

Getting to Greener Steel

Getting to Greener Steel

NEW YORK – Burning coal to generate power is so uneconomical that the Trump administration has resorted to issuing stay-open orders to prop up the...

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Gernot Wagner

The High Cost of Defunding Women’s Organizations

The High Cost of Defunding Women’s Organizations

MANAGUA – As a feminist activist and human-rights advocate, I have spent more than two decades fighting for democracy and justice in Nicaragua,...

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Suyen Barahona

Trump’s Effort to Pick America’s Corporate Winners Will End Badly

Trump’s Effort to Pick America’s Corporate Winners Will End Badly

SEOUL – For at least the last 150 years, state intervention in picking individual industries and firms to support has been shown to undermine...

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Anne O. Krueger

The US Is Winning the AI Race - But for How Long?

The US Is Winning the AI Race - But for How Long?

PARIS/MUNICH – It is tempting to view AI as merely another technological advance, but that is like saying the steam engine was just a faster way to...

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Sylvain Duranton

Turning the Tide Back Toward Peace in the Middle East

Turning the Tide Back Toward Peace in the Middle East

NEW YORK – The 2025 United Nations General Assembly opened with a major step toward implementing a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine...

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José Manuel Albares Bueno

On Climate Change, the Market Is Wrong Again

On Climate Change, the Market Is Wrong Again

GENEVA – As business, government, and nonprofit leaders debate the future of climate action ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (...

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Fiona Watson

How Gender Equality Boosts Economic Growth

How Gender Equality Boosts Economic Growth

NEW HAVEN – With protectionism and industrial policy returning to advanced economies, and with geopolitical tensions on the rise, this is an...

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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Violence Against Health Workers Must End

Violence Against Health Workers Must End

PORT HARCOURT – This summer, a male patient at Specialist Hospital Damaturu in Nigeria’s Yobe State physically assaulted a female health-care...

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Adaeze Oreh

The Key to Africa’s Clean-Energy Future

The Key to Africa’s Clean-Energy Future

ABUJA/DUBAI/SEATTLE – In Kiguna, a rural community in Nigeria, the fish trader Blessing Bitrus used to have just a few precious hours to sell the...

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Kashim Shettima

AI Is Pointless If It Doesn’t Boost Productivity

AI Is Pointless If It Doesn’t Boost Productivity

LONDON – It has become all but impossible to ignore the breathless media coverage of AI. The technology’s accelerating progress is treated as an...

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Jim O&x27Neill

The Polycrisis Demands a Renewed Humanism

The Polycrisis Demands a Renewed Humanism

PARIS – In 1999, one of us (Morin) introduced the term polycrisis to describe the web of interconnected catastrophes threatening our world. At the...

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Edgar Morin

What a Mission-Oriented Approach to School Meals Could Do

What a Mission-Oriented Approach to School Meals Could Do

LONDON – The global food system is failing on multiple fronts. With more than 2.6 billion people unable to afford a healthy diet, over 500 million...

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Mariana Mazzucato

Trump’s Show of Force

Trump’s Show of Force

DNIPRO – In the nine months since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the overall goals of his agenda have become clear enough: weaken the...

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Timothy Snyder

Clean Energy Is Inevitable Despite Trump

Clean Energy Is Inevitable Despite Trump

BERLIN – Brexit, Donald Trump, COVID-19, Russia’s war on Ukraine, Trump 2.0: During the decade since the Paris climate agreement was signed, the...

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Jennifer Morgan

Government Shutdowns and America's Broken Democracy

Government Shutdowns and America's Broken Democracy

WASHINGTON, DC – It’s September in Washington, and everyone knows what that means: the United States Congress is scrambling to agree on a budget...

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Reed Galen

Health Taxes Are a Win-Win

Health Taxes Are a Win-Win

EDINBURGH – Health systems around the world are overstretched and underfunded. In 2023, low-income countries spent just $10 per person annually on...

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Gordon Brown