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Will Japan Be the World’s Next AI Leader?

TOKYO – Pessimism about AI abounds, with many fearing widespread job losses, soaring inequality, and even the creation of deadly machines. In...

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Hiroshi Mikitani

The Global Economic Transformation Will Be Local

CAMBRIDGE – We are at the dawn of a new age: the climate transition is upon us, the era of hyper-globalization is receding, middle classes...

yesterday 60

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Gordon Hanson

The Ocean Has Finally Entered the Global Climate Debate

FALMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS – In global climate policy, the ocean was long treated as an afterthought, too vast to manage effectively and too resilient...

yesterday 40

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Kilaparti Ramakrishna

Europe Does Not Lack Capital - It Lacks Scale

PARIS – The conventional wisdom in Europe is that we lack homegrown technology giants because we lack the capital to generate them. Every debate on...

yesterday 20

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Antonin Bergeaud

Does Venezuela Herald a No-Rules International Order?

WASHINGTON DC – The most important question stemming from America’s intervention in Venezuela is not whether it violated international law and...

yesterday 10

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Carla Norrlöf

Trump’s Special Military Operation in Venezuela

BERLIN – In the early hours of January 3, US forces bombed Caracas, blacking out the capital, and captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from...

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Stephen Holmes

Trump’s Fear and Loathing of Europe

NEW YORK – Last November, US President Donald Trump’s administration declared in its National Security Strategy that Europe stands on the brink of...

previous day 50

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Ian Buruma

How the Stock Market Could Sink Trump in 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – In a recent campaign-style speech, US President Donald Trump asserted that “the only thing that’s really going up, big, it’s...

previous day 40

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Desmond Lachman

The Precedents to Trump’s Venezuela Operation

TORONTO – The United States has now extracted Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela and detained him in New York, with President Donald Trump claiming that...

previous day 20

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Timothy Snyder

The Trump Doctrine in Venezuela

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Richard Haass

The Post-2025 World Order

MADRID – US President Donald Trump’s designation by various publications as one of the most influential people of 2025 is not surprising. But it is...

02.01.2026 60

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Ana Palacio

Israel Unbound

WASHINGTON, DC – Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the Middle East has faced its most severe and consequential crisis in decades....

02.01.2026 60

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Vali Nasr

Trump’s Travel Bans Threaten US National Security

GENEVA – Last month, US President Donald Trump banned or severely restricted nationals of 20 additional countries from entering the United States,...

02.01.2026 20

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Brahma Chellaney

The Case for Universalism in a Fragmenting World

NEW YORK – At the cusp of a new year, the global outlook appears increasingly grim. Escalating conflicts and resurgent authoritarianism are...

02.01.2026 30

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Kaushik Basu

Energy Will Decide the AI Race

02.01.2026 40

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Vittorio Quaglione

The Truth About Europe’s Regulation of Digital Platforms

PARIS – The Trump administration’s recent decision to prohibit five European officials from entering the United States has drawn attention, once...

02.01.2026 1

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Bertrand Badré

Where Is the US Economy Headed in 2026?

If you ask US President Donald Trump, his first year back in office has been a roaring success. But, while 2025 did not prove as economically...

01.01.2026 60

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