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Precedent Points to a US War Crime in the Caribbean

Precedent Points to a US War Crime in the Caribbean

WASHINGTON, DC – Recent reporting has revealed that on September 2, 2025, the US Navy launched a missile strike against an alleged drug-smuggling...

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Allan J. Lichtman

The Best Treatment for the Most Painful Medical Condition Is Illegal

The Best Treatment for the Most Painful Medical Condition Is Illegal

MELBOURNE – John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty to defend the principle that the only justification for restricting liberty is to prevent harm to...

yesterday 20

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Peter Singer

The Japanese Canary in the Global Debt Coal Mine

The Japanese Canary in the Global Debt Coal Mine

MUMBAI – Earlier this month, global bond markets were rocked by remarks from Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda suggesting that the BOJ would soon...

yesterday 20

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Barry Eichengreen

Building an Effective Sovereign Borrowers’ Club

Building an Effective Sovereign Borrowers’ Club

WASHINGTON, DC/CAIRO – One of the most promising ideas in the Seville Commitment (Compromiso de Sevilla), which heads of state and government...

yesterday 20

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Homi Kharas

The Global Economy’s Hidden Rebalancing

The Global Economy’s Hidden Rebalancing

WASHINGTON, DC – Next year, global growth is expected to be near 3.1%, almost the same as this year. To many observers, such steadiness suggests a...

yesterday 20

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Marcello Estevão

How Global AI Governance Could Work

How Global AI Governance Could Work

LONDON – Ahead of the AI Impact Summit in India in February, it is clear that most countries still lack a workable model for governing the...

yesterday 20

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Jayant Sinha

Trump’s Ethnonational Security Strategy

yesterday 5

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Ps Commentators

Only Creative Destruction Will Boost European Competitiveness

Only Creative Destruction Will Boost European Competitiveness

PARIS – While debates about Europe’s flagging growth prospects have been ongoing at least since the turn of the century, the 2020s have lent them...

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Philippe Aghion

Beyond Multilateralism

Beyond Multilateralism
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Javier Solana

When Communism Is the Only Option

When Communism Is the Only Option

LJUBLJANA – Where, in today’s world, do all our antagonisms and struggles for survival converge? Is there a singular point that embodies our...

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Slavoj Žižek

Who’s Afraid of Stablecoins?

Who’s Afraid of Stablecoins?

LUXEMBOURG – US President Donald Trump’s embrace of so-called stablecoins as a means of projecting America’s financial power and preserving the...

previous day 10

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Daniel Gros

Trade Wars Destroy the Planet

Trade Wars Destroy the Planet

BEIJING – Tariff wars are often justified as necessary to protect or reshore manufacturing jobs and to improve national security. But, according to...

previous day 10

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Qiyuan Xu

Can Trump Ease Algeria-Morocco Tensions?

Can Trump Ease Algeria-Morocco Tensions?

DOHA – In October, Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, declared in an interview with the news program 60...

previous day 10

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Dalia Ghanem

The Treason of the Populists

The Treason of the Populists

LONDON – Until a few days ago, it had never crossed my mind that people across Europe – including Londoners like me – were living in a strife-...

tuesday 10

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Michael Burleigh

Europe’s Electric Straitjacket

Europe’s Electric Straitjacket

MADRID – For over three decades, the European Union’s climate policy has been shaped by a simple conviction: the faster we replace fossil fuels...

tuesday 10

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Ana Palacio

Trump’s Pardon Racket

Trump’s Pardon Racket

PARIS – Last week, Juan Orlando Hernández walked out of a federal prison in West Virginia a free man. A former president of Honduras, Hernández,...

tuesday 10

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Stephen Holmes

The Roots of Britain’s Economic Malaise

The Roots of Britain’s Economic Malaise

LONDON – In July, I suggested that despite the gloomy outlook for the United Kingdom, two important positive signals had been overlooked outside of...

tuesday 10

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Jim O&x27Neill

Trump Is Betting Against the Future

Trump Is Betting Against the Future

PARIS – The new US National Security Strategy is not, in any meaningful sense, a strategy. A strategy connects means to achievable ends. What...

tuesday 10

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Stephen Holmes

All Cash-Strapped Governments Should Be Using this Tool

All Cash-Strapped Governments Should Be Using this Tool

LONDON – Around the world, in rich and poor countries alike, public budget constraints are limiting efforts to address social ills and fueling...

tuesday 10

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Ronald Cohen

America Will Pay for Pushing India Away

America Will Pay for Pushing India Away

NEW DELHI – At a time when US policy toward India has become distinctly punitive, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s warm reception of Russian...

08.12.2025 40

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Brahma Chellaney

Trump Wants to Make Europe White Again

Trump Wants to Make Europe White Again

PARIS – Since his return to the White House, US President Donald Trump’s vision for the world – particularly for Europe – has often been...

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Zaki Laïdi

European Tech Sovereignty Requires Digital Leverage, Not Self-Sufficiency

European Tech Sovereignty Requires Digital Leverage, Not Self-Sufficiency

BERLIN – On November 18, Berlin hosted the first Summit on European Digital Sovereignty. France and Germany used the occasion to unveil a set of...

08.12.2025 30

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Anke Hassel

María Corina Machado’s Catholic Revolution

María Corina Machado’s Catholic Revolution

COLLEGE PARK – US President Donald Trump’s air strikes on boats off the Venezuelan coast have dominated news headlines since September, with the...

08.12.2025 30

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Piotr H. Kosicki

Trump’s United States of the Americas

Trump’s United States of the Americas

NEW YORK – National security strategies, released from time to time by every US administration, often say little and are quickly forgotten. The...

08.12.2025 5

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Richard Haass

Trump’s Authoritarian Innovations

Trump’s Authoritarian Innovations

NEW YORK – Every aspiring autocrat who takes power in a free society makes use of time-tested measures and methods to delegitimize and ultimately...

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Europe’s Tech Firms Need Regulation to Grow

Europe’s Tech Firms Need Regulation to Grow

BRUSSELS – Europeans have long lamented the continent’s lack of globally competitive tech companies. But since Donald Trump’s return to the White...

05.12.2025 6

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Max Von Thun

India and the Gulf States Could Reshape Global Trade

India and the Gulf States Could Reshape Global Trade

NEW DELHI/LONDON – The recent Middle East Investment Forum in Sharjah underscored the deepening economic relationship between India and the Gulf...

05.12.2025 20

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Vivek Agarwal

The Critical-Minerals Race Is Putting the Planet at Risk

The Critical-Minerals Race Is Putting the Planet at Risk

BERLIN – The environmental and human toll of mineral extraction is becoming clearer – and more alarming – by the day. Roughly 60% of Ghana’s...

05.12.2025 30

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Johanna Sydow

Britain’s Fiscal Watchdog Doesn't See What Matters

Britain’s Fiscal Watchdog Doesn't See What Matters

LONDON – Like many developed economies, Britain faces a paradox: it has too many fiscal rules and too little purpose. Its fiscal watchdog keeps an...

05.12.2025 20

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Paolo Surico

The Transformative Power of Early Childhood Education

The Transformative Power of Early Childhood Education

LONDON – The leaders’ declaration adopted at the end of the recent G20 summit in South Africa reaffirmed the group’s commitment to tackling some of...

05.12.2025 10

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Justin Van Fleet