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Shashi Tharoor

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Shashi Tharoor, a former UN under-secretary-general and former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, is an MP for the Indian National Congress and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha for a fourth successive term, representing Thiruvananthapuram. He is the author, most recently, of Ambedkar: A Life (Aleph Book Company, 2022).

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  1. The Indians Dividing MAGA
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    The Indians Dividing MAGA

    Jan 2, 2025 Shashi Tharoor shows how one immigrant group became central to the “civil war” within Donald Trump’s base.

  2. Why Are So Many Indians Fleeing to America?
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    Why Are So Many Indians Fleeing to America?

    Dec 10, 2024 Shashi Tharoor points out that even middle-class families increasingly see no future in their home country.

  3. India’s Troubled Truce with China
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    India’s Troubled Truce with China

    Nov 13, 2024 Shashi Tharoor fears that the recent agreement ending the military standoff in Ladakh will not bring the expected benefits.

  4. Why Must Indians Vote So Often?
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    Why Must Indians Vote So Often?

    Oct 16, 2024 Shashi Tharoor argues that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal to hold all elections on the same day is a non-starter.

  5. Overworked India
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    Overworked India

    Sep 27, 2024 Shashi Tharoor proposes ways to address a toxic work culture that is harming young people’s health and well-being.

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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.

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