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  1. Gordon Brown

    Gordon Brown

    Writing for PS since 2010
    106 Commentaries

    Gordon Brown, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom, is UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of Education Cannot Wait.

  2. Omar Andrés Camacho

    Omar Andrés Camacho

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Omar Andrés Camacho is Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia.

  3. Tomas Casas-Klett

    Tomas Casas-Klett

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Tomas Casas-Klett is a visiting professor at Fudan University.

  4. Aswath Damodaran

    Aswath Damodaran

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Aswath Damodaran is Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business.

  5. Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Cory Doctorow, a science fiction writer, activist, and journalist, is the author, most recently, of The Lost Cause (Tor Books, 2023), The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Verso, 2023), and The Bezzle (Tor Books, 2024).

  6. Connie Hedegaard

    Connie Hedegaard

    Writing for PS since 2009
    10 Commentaries

    Connie Hedegaard served as European Commissioner for Climate Action (2010-14), and as Denmark’s Minister for the Environment (2004-07) and Minister for Climate and Energy (2007-09).

  7. Jorge  Heine

    Jorge Heine

    Writing for PS since 2023
    2 Commentaries

    Jorge Heine, a research professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, is the editor of Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and Beyond (United Nations University Press, 2011).

  8. Mordecai Kurz

    Mordecai Kurz

    Writing for PS since 2017
    5 Commentaries

    Mordecai Kurz is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the author, most recently, of The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age (Columbia University Press, 2023).

  9. Ya-Wen Lei

    Ya-Wen Lei

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, is the author of The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (Princeton University Press, 2023).

  10. Bronwen Maddox

    Bronwen Maddox

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Bronwen Maddox is Director and CEO of Chatham House.

  11. Clara Mattei

    Clara Mattei

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Clara Mattei, Associate Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

  12. Ashoka Mody

    Ashoka Mody

    Writing for PS since 2012
    34 Commentaries

    Ashoka Mody, a visiting professor of International Economic Policy at Princeton University, previously worked for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of India is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today (Stanford University Press, 2023).

  13. Jan-Werner Mueller

    Jan-Werner Mueller

    Writing for PS since 2007
    56 Commentaries

    Jan-Werner Mueller, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, is the author, most recently, of Democracy Rules (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021; Allen Lane, 2021).

  14. Margaret O'Mara

    Margaret O'Mara

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Margaret O’Mara is Professor of American History at the University of Washington and the author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Penguin Press, 2019) and Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005).

  15. Nkechi S. Owoo

    Nkechi S. Owoo

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Nkechi S. Owoo, a health and demographic economist at the University of Ghana, is a non-resident research fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, and at the Partnership for Economic Policy in Nairobi, Kenya.

  16. Carlota Perez

    Carlota Perez

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Carlota Perez, a professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London, is author of Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).

  17. Rebecca Ray

    Rebecca Ray

    Writing for PS since 2020
    2 Commentaries

    Rebecca Ray is a senior academic researcher at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center.

  18. Soipan Tuya

    Soipan Tuya

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Soipan Tuya is Cabinet Secretary of the Kenyan Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Forestry.

  19. Ulrich Volz

    Ulrich Volz

    Writing for PS since 2020
    6 Commentaries

    Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London, is Co-Chair of the Debt Relief for Green and Inclusive Recovery Project.

  20. Dolores de la Mata

    Dolores de la Mata

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Dolores de la Mata is a research economist at CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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    A Big Defeat for Big Tech

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Tech companies know that if there is an open, democratic debate about data security, consumers’ concerns about digital safeguards will win out. And while the industry's lobbyists tried to ensure that no such debate could ever occur, one of their more cynical moves has now been exposed and thwarted.

    details how the industry tried to slip extraordinary protections against regulation into US trade agreements.
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    Haiti’s Proud Boys

    Slavoj Žižek

    If we measure a failed state by the cracks in the edifice of its power, reflected in brewing ideological civil wars, deadlocked assemblies, and increasingly insecure public spaces, we must recognize that the United States is not so unlike Haiti. Both have given rise to violent gangs with political ambitions.

    warns that rich Western democracies are not immune to politically motivated gang violence.
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    Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset

    Connie Hedegaard emphasizes the importance of stability amid persistent economic and geopolitical crises.
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    The Truth About US Immigration

    Nancy Qian warns that overheated campaign-season rhetoric is dangerously polarizing and ultimately self-defeating.
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    The Zombification of Political Parties

    Jan-Werner Mueller argues that Donald Trump’s capture of the GOP’s organizational machinery recalls authoritarian tactics elsewhere.
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    The Economic Consequences of Legal Behavior

    Kaushik Basu highlights the potential benefits of emphasizing adherence to the spirit of laws, if not their letter.
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    For Nigeria’s Schools, Safety Must Come First

    Gordon Brown writes that the latest mass abduction of students underscores the dilemma facing parents throughout the country.
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    Give Women with Disabilities a Chance

    Nkechi S. Owoo explains what is needed to protect and empower one of the world’s most vulnerable demographic groups.
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    How Capitalism Became a Threat to Democracy

    Mordecai Kurz examines the economic policies and market dynamics that have ushered in America's Second Gilded Age.

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