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MUNICH—In his historic speech in Davos in January, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney urged middle powers to confront an increasingly harsh...
LOS ANGELES/NEW BRUNSWICK—OpenAI’s Sam Altman, US President Donald Trump, US Senator Bernie Sanders, and California Governor Gavin Newsom do not...
NEW HAVEN—Long on ceremony but short on substance, the eagerly anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping...
OXFORD—The international order that emerged in the aftermath of World War II is confronting a legitimacy crisis, and the system for protecting human...
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....
BEIJING—The renminbi has staged a notable recovery against the dollar since the second half of 2025, prompting renewed discussion about how much...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO—AI has spread faster than any technology in modern history. Within three years of ChatGPT’s release, generative AI has been adopted...
WASHINGTON, DC—When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was delivering her State of the Union address in Strasbourg, I was in...
GENEVA/HOUSTON/LISBON—The largest energy-supply shock in modern history has delivered a surprising lesson: the global energy system is remarkably...
NEW YORK—The monetary integration of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has become an exercise in perpetual postponement: more...
EDINBURGH—The United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries currently suffer from toxic divisiveness. Our societies have fractured...
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...
LONDON—Following repeated security debacles at OpenAI and Anthropic—both of which have developed agents that ended up hacking external...
LONDON—Earlier this month, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey pledged to “sharpen the focus” of the country’s public-finance...
PARIS—When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyentold Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that she wants “to work with [him] on...
SAN FRANCISCO—Two secular trends will shape finance in the years ahead, one powered from the bottom up by transformative technological innovations,...
LONDON—Economics has spent the last three decades celebrating what it calls a credibility revolution. Armed with natural experiments, randomized...
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...
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...
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...
BERLIN—As world leaders descend on New York City for the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, the international order they have...
FRANKFURT—In her 1967 essay “Truth and Politics,” the political philosopher Hannah Arendt observed that “Freedom of opinion is a farce unless...
ITHACA, NEW YORK—Over the past decade, scholars and journalists have been writing about what the march of digital technology means for humanity with...
LONDON—Modern liberal democracy is buckling in many countries whose citizens have known no other system, with established parties shedding support...
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...
PRETORIA—As global leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the world is facing the largest number of armed conflicts...
WASHINGTON, DC—When US President Donald Trump fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics—claiming falsely that the agency’s economic...
BUENOS AIRES—For much of the 2000s, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) seemed to have finally distanced itself from the International Monetary...
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...
STANFORD—Bilateral trade agreements appear to be shaping the future. The interim trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur (Argentina,...
NEW HAVEN—Europe has come to a crossroads in its economic relationship with China. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, noting in her...
STOCKHOLM—Benighted politics are once again haunting the Balkans. This month’s semi-official funeral in Belgrade for the convicted war criminal...
WASHINGTON, DC—In his second administration, Donald Trump has injected the federal government deep into private markets and undermined the...
ATHENS—Is AI a bubble? It all depends, we are told, on whether massive investments in the technology will massively boost productivity. Optimists...
LIBREVILLE—During a recent talk at the Harvard Kennedy School, students asked me what it would take to turn African countries from consumers of...
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...
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...
BERLIN—Germany’s economy in recent years has been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting energy...
PRINCETON—Germany’s far right has won again, capturing the largest share of the vote in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as it...