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CHICAGO—AI tools will undoubtedly transform the nature of work. Large language models can already generate referee reports on my own research papers...
WASHINGTON, DC—Donald Trump’s recent summit with Xi Jinping has revived a familiar debate: Would the United States defend Taiwan if China invaded?
BERLIN—The king has two bodies: a mortal one that eats, sleeps, and dies, and an immortal political one that persists as the state. US President...
NEW HAVEN—The recent summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing produced no major breakthroughs on tariffs, Taiwan, or ongoing...
WATERLOO—Faced with a rapidly changing global terrain, Canada is adjusting its footing. The new reality is one where technological control,...
BRAZZAVILLE/DOHA—The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC and OPEC after nearly six decades of membership has dealt a major structural...
PARIS—Environmental and climate concerns appear to be in retreat worldwide. The word sustainability has become politically charged, the Trump...
LONDON—Given UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s flailing effort to stay in power despite his party’s huge losses in local elections this month, it...
TORONTO—The United States has unprecedented power to conduct military strikes anywhere around the world, to impose damaging tariffs and sanctions,...
CAPE TOWN/ADDIS ABABA—Maps are never neutral. They are instruments of knowledge, yes, but also of power, ideology, and often manipulation.
STOCKHOLM—Two aging leaders are struggling to get out of disastrous wars that they personally drove their countries into. Neither is succeeding.
WASHINGTON, DC—More than 50 years after decolonization, the West still regards Africa as a supporting player in the global economy: a source of raw...
SEOUL—Global imbalances are again dominating international economic debates, and with good reason. Large and persistent imbalances often end badly,...
MARBURG—The US-Israeli war with Iran has revealed how instability can become a powerful political instrument. Leaders can exploit crises to maintain...
SINGAPORE—The optics of this week’s summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping were carefully staged to signal parity between the United States...
BERKELEY—California is not only America’s largest state economy but also its most consequential laboratory for democratic governance and market...
WASHINGTON, DC—In The Three-Arched Bridge, the novelist Ismail Kadare tells the story of a bridge being built in medieval Arbëria (modern-day...
BEIJING—The global water cycle is our planet’s life-support system. It is a powerful environmental pump, with forests transpiring moisture and...
LONDON—The lead-up to US President Donald Trump’s two-day summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, reflected the prevailing assumption...
BISHKEK—The upcoming IPO of Uzbekistan’s National Investment Fund (UzNIF) marks a turning point for Central Asia. With $2.4 billion in assets and...
NEW YORK—With so many intractable problems in global politics, it is all the more frustrating that the international community often neglects...
TEL AVIV—Major wars usher in new international orders. The Thirty Years’ War brought the Peace of Westphalia. The Napoleonic Wars gave rise to the...
TORONTO—The United States is spending billions of dollars to lose a war in Iran that is enriching its oligarchs, impoverishing its citizens,...
BERKELEY—After years of preparation, the EU’s three governing bodies—the European Parliament, the European Council, and the European...
CAMBRIDGE—Donald Trump has spent much of his second term as US president proposing monuments to himself: a 250-foot triumphal arch between the...
BERKELEY—A spectrum is haunting America—or at least the New York Times: the autism spectrum. Over the course of one week, the newspaper of record...
WASHINGTON, DC—“There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn...
NEW YORK—Since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin has not only failed to...
PORT VILA—Last year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a legal opinion on climate change with a clarity of purpose not seen since...
CAMBRIDGE—At a gathering of academics and policymakers at Harvard this month, a participant reminded me that I had published a column 15 years ago...
BALTIMORE—Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, he has relentlessly attacked the US Federal Reserve’s independence. In his...
NEW YORK—The US-Israeli war with Iran has done much more than destabilize the Middle East, trigger a surge in energy and other prices, and disrupt...
AUSTIN—More than nine weeks into the three-day war on Iran—recently declared “over” by the White House even as threats continue—it is not...
SOFIA—Since Israel and the United States launched their war on Iran in February, global energy prices have skyrocketed, with crude oil reaching...
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