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Trump’s Great Oil Heist

Trump’s Great Oil Heist
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Cristina Ramirez

Global AI Oversight Now

Global AI Oversight Now
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Gabriela Ramos

Climate Resilience Starts With Care

Climate Resilience Starts With Care
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Caren Grown

Conserving a Connected Ocean

Conserving a Connected Ocean
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Marie-May Jeremie

Why Is the Global Economy So Resilient?

Why Is the Global Economy So Resilient?
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Nouriel Roubini

Closing Europe’s Dynamism Deficit

Closing Europe’s Dynamism Deficit
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Carl Benedikt Frey

America’s Looming Debt Reckoning

America’s Looming Debt Reckoning
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Kenneth Rogoff

The OECD Should Be Reclaimed, Not Abandoned

The OECD Should Be Reclaimed, Not Abandoned
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Kim Ruhl

Putin Is Testing NATO at Ukraine’s Borders

Putin Is Testing NATO at Ukraine’s Borders
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Anna Husarska

The Hard Road to a Middle-Power Order

The Hard Road to a Middle-Power Order

MUNICH—In his historic speech in Davos in January, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney urged middle powers to confront an increasingly harsh...

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Sophie Eisentraut

The Sovereign Wealth Fund America Needs

The Sovereign Wealth Fund America Needs

LOS ANGELES/NEW BRUNSWICK—OpenAI’s Sam Altman, US President Donald Trump, US Senator Bernie Sanders, and California Governor Gavin Newsom do not...

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Steven Hill

Trump’s Vanity Summit With Xi

Trump’s Vanity Summit With Xi

NEW HAVEN—Long on ceremony but short on substance, the eagerly anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping...

30.09.2026 50

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Stephen S. Roach

Human Rights and Populist Wrongs

Human Rights and Populist Wrongs

OXFORD—The international order that emerged in the aftermath of World War II is confronting a legitimacy crisis, and the system for protecting human...

30.09.2026 60

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Murray Hunt

Is Another Eurozone Debt Crisis Looming?

Is Another Eurozone Debt Crisis Looming?

WASHINGTON, DC—In 2010, a Greek sovereign-debt crisis roiled world financial markets. Now, France threatens to do the same, but on a larger scale....

30.09.2026 70

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Desmond Lachman

Will AI Reverse the Renminbi’s Rise?

Will AI Reverse the Renminbi’s Rise?

BEIJING—The renminbi has staged a notable recovery against the dollar since the second half of 2025, prompting renewed discussion about how much...

30.09.2026 80

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Miao Yanliang

The Price of You

The Price of You

WASHINGTON, DC—You ask an AI chatbot to recommend a thermometer. It gives you a confident, friendly answer with a link to purchase it. What the...

30.09.2026 60

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Lindsay Owens

Investing in Brain Health

Investing in Brain Health

SAN FRANCISCO—AI has spread faster than any technology in modern history. Within three years of ChatGPT’s release, generative AI has been adopted...

29.09.2026 40

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Harris Eyre

Europe Still Needs Molecules

Europe Still Needs Molecules

WASHINGTON, DC—When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was delivering her State of the Union address in Strasbourg, I was in...

29.09.2026 70

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Ana Palacio

Energy Security in an Age of Disruption

Energy Security in an Age of Disruption

GENEVA/HOUSTON/LISBON—The largest energy-supply shock in modern history has delivered a surprising lesson: the global energy system is remarkably...

29.09.2026 70

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Diego Hernandez Diaz

Africa’s Common Currency-in-Waiting

Africa’s Common Currency-in-Waiting

NEW YORK—The monetary integration of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has become an exercise in perpetual postponement: more...

29.09.2026 70

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Hippolyte Fofack

Learning to Reconcile

Learning to Reconcile

EDINBURGH—The United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries currently suffer from toxic divisiveness. Our societies have fractured...

29.09.2026 60

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Gordon Brown

Sheinbaum Is Just Another Trump Appeaser

Sheinbaum Is Just Another Trump Appeaser

MEXICO CITY—October 1 will mark the end of the second year of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s six-year term. Her economic record is...

28.09.2026 30

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Jorge G. Castañeda

Distorted Intelligence at the AI Frontier

Distorted Intelligence at the AI Frontier

LONDON—Following repeated security debacles at OpenAI and Anthropic—both of which have developed agents that ended up hacking external...

28.09.2026 100

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Daron Acemoglu

Good Growth Requires the Right Public Finance

Good Growth Requires the Right Public Finance

LONDON—Earlier this month, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey pledged to “sharpen the focus” of the country’s public-finance...

28.09.2026 80

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Mariana Mazzucato

An EU–Canada Partnership Against Coercion

An EU–Canada Partnership Against Coercion

PARIS—When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyentold Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that she wants “to work with [him] on...

28.09.2026 70

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Alberto Alemanno

The Opposing Forces Reshaping Global Finance

The Opposing Forces Reshaping Global Finance

SAN FRANCISCO—Two secular trends will shape finance in the years ahead, one powered from the bottom up by transformative technological innovations,...

28.09.2026 80

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Mohamed A. El-Erian

The Dismally Obedient Science

The Dismally Obedient Science

LONDON—Economics has spent the last three decades celebrating what it calls a credibility revolution. Armed with natural experiments, randomized...

28.09.2026 70

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Carolina Alves

Oligarchy Is a Symptom, Not a Cause

Oligarchy Is a Symptom, Not a Cause

CAMBRIDGE—It has become a common refrain among Americans that the US political system is broken. The question is how it reached this point—and how...

25.09.2026 90

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Jeffrey Frankel

The Immigrants Leading the Anti-Immigrant Far Right

The Immigrants Leading the Anti-Immigrant Far Right

WARSAW—Earlier this month, Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, a state where foreign...

25.09.2026 70

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Sławomir Sierakowski

The Great AI Gamble

The Great AI Gamble

PRINCETON—The summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping comes at a time when both are gambling everything on AI—or...

25.09.2026 80

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Harold James

The Un-Ordered UN Order

The Un-Ordered UN Order

BERLIN—As world leaders descend on New York City for the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, the international order they have...

25.09.2026 80

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Mark Leonard

AI Needs Trusted Journalism

AI Needs Trusted Journalism

FRANKFURT—In her 1967 essay “Truth and Politics,” the political philosopher Hannah Arendt observed that “Freedom of opinion is a farce unless...

25.09.2026 90

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Stig Ørskov

How to Stop the AI-pocalypse

How to Stop the AI-pocalypse

ITHACA, NEW YORK—Over the past decade, scholars and journalists have been writing about what the march of digital technology means for humanity with...

25.09.2026 80

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Kaushik Basu

What Killed Liberalism?

What Killed Liberalism?

LONDON—Modern liberal democracy is buckling in many countries whose citizens have known no other system, with established parties shedding support...

25.09.2026 90

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Gene Frieda

The Return of the German Question

The Return of the German Question

BERLIN—On September 6, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won 43.8% of the vote in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, falling...

24.09.2026 80

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Joschka Fischer

UN Peacekeeping in Crisis

UN Peacekeeping in Crisis

PRETORIA—As global leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the world is facing the largest number of armed conflicts...

24.09.2026 80

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Adekeye Adebajo

Lies, Election Lies, and Trump’s Statisticians

Lies, Election Lies, and Trump’s Statisticians

WASHINGTON, DC—When US President Donald Trump fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics—claiming falsely that the agency’s economic...

24.09.2026 80

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Michael R. Strain

The Return of the IMF to Latin America

The Return of the IMF to Latin America

BUENOS AIRES—For much of the 2000s, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) seemed to have finally distanced itself from the International Monetary...

24.09.2026 50

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Martín Abeles

The AI Plot Thickens

24.09.2026 90

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Ps Commentators

Will AI Take Asian Young People’s Jobs?

Will AI Take Asian Young People’s Jobs?

SEOUL—AI is advancing at a breathtaking pace, and so are fears about its impact on jobs, especially for young people entering the labor market. The...

24.09.2026 80

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Lee Jong-Wha

How Trade Deals Can Save Nature

How Trade Deals Can Save Nature

STANFORD—Bilateral trade agreements appear to be shaping the future. The interim trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur (Argentina,...

23.09.2026 40

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Bård Harstad

Europe’s Third Way on China

Europe’s Third Way on China

NEW HAVEN—Europe has come to a crossroads in its economic relationship with China. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, noting in her...

23.09.2026 90

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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Alarm Bells in the Balkans

Alarm Bells in the Balkans

STOCKHOLM—Benighted politics are once again haunting the Balkans. This month’s semi-official funeral in Belgrade for the convicted war criminal...

23.09.2026 80

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Carl Bildt

Trump’s 21st-Century Mercantilism

Trump’s 21st-Century Mercantilism

WASHINGTON, DC—In his second administration, Donald Trump has injected the federal government deep into private markets and undermined the...

23.09.2026 90

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Anne O. Krueger

The AI Productivity Delusion

The AI Productivity Delusion

ATHENS—Is AI a bubble? It all depends, we are told, on whether massive investments in the technology will massively boost productivity. Optimists...

23.09.2026 100

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Yanis Varoufakis

Technological Leapfrogging in the AI Age

Technological Leapfrogging in the AI Age

LIBREVILLE—During a recent talk at the Harvard Kennedy School, students asked me what it would take to turn African countries from consumers of...

23.09.2026 90

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Mark-Alexandre Doumba

Preventing an AI World War

LONDON/LOS ANGELES—When President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Washington this week, AI governance is expected to be at the...

22.09.2026 40

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S. Alex Yang

Post-Liberal Europe?

PARIS—Coming just a couple weeks after the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won the largest share of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt’s state...

22.09.2026 80

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Zaki Laïdi

Germany’s Moment of Reckoning

BERLIN—Germany’s economy in recent years has been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting energy...

22.09.2026 40

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Ulrike Malmendier

Is Germany’s Firewall Collapsing?

PRINCETON—Germany’s far right has won again, capturing the largest share of the vote in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as it...

22.09.2026 80

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Jan-Werner Mueller