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Geoff Mulgan

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Geoff Mulgan, a professor at University College London, is the author of When Science Meets Power (Polity, 2024).

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  1. Building the Next Generation of Public Institutions
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    Building the Next Generation of Public Institutions

    Feb 25, 2025 Geoff Mulgan touts new thinking about how to design agile, flexible, and trustworthy governance mechanisms.

  2. The Right to Truth
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    The Right to Truth

    Aug 14, 2024 Geoff Mulgan outlines how policymakers could reduce the spread of lies, distortions, and misinformation.

  3. What Green AI Needs
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    What Green AI Needs

    Sep 20, 2021 Geoff Mulgan identifies the structural hurdles that must be removed to make the most of digital climate solutions.

  4. The Game Changer Beyond AI
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    The Game Changer Beyond AI

    Apr 24, 2020 Geoff Mulgan shows why technologies that capitalize on human capabilities are better than those that replace them.

  5. Happiness by Design
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    Happiness by Design

    Nov 12, 2015 Geoff Mulgan explains how happiness can be taught – and even legislated.

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    Trump’s Tariffs Will Hurt Mexico – and America

    Anne O. Krueger thinks the US administration’s trade restrictions will end up undermining its stated immigration goals.
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    Americans Will Miss Their Government When It’s Gone

    Sami Mahroum explains what will follow from the indiscriminate gutting of federal agencies and mass firings.
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    Trump’s Imaginary Victories

    Jeffrey Frankel says that to call the US president a “transactional” leader is to ignore his utter lack of strategic thinking.
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    Greenland’s Future Must Be Decided by Greenland’s People

    Simon Johnson dismisses the argument that US national security depends on gaining control over the island.
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    Nature Needs Its Own ID

    Midori Paxton shows how digital tools can drive a data-driven approach to protecting our planet’s environmental health.
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    Ukraine’s True Value

    Anastassia Fedyk & Emilia Marshall

    Ukraine’s immense industrial and human resources once helped make the Soviet Union a global power, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is counting on them to achieve his neo-imperialist dream. With the US now behaving like a Kremlin proxy, supporting Ukraine has become an existential imperative for Europe.

     warn that abandoning the country could hand Vladimir Putin the opportunity to restore Russia’s imperial status.
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    America Is Gone – Europe Must Replace It

    Sławomir Sierakowski

    Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s verbal assault on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office was shocking but not surprising. As the Trump administration rapidly destroys America's credibility and international standing, Europe must mobilize its ample resources to replace America as a global leader.

     says the Trump administration's Oval Office fight with Ukraine's president is a moment that will live in infamy.
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    Can America Maintain External Sustainability?

    Yu Yongding explains why demand for foreign capital inflows to offset the country’s savings shortfall may go unmet.
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    The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld

    Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.

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