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    Did Mexico Help Trump Get Elected?

    Jorge G. Castañeda speculates that former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador used migration flows to influence the US election.
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    Will the Second Trump Boom Go Bust?

    Kenneth Rogoff warns that, regardless of domestic policies, powerful global headwinds could impede US economic growth.
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    Populism Never Lasts

    Michael R. Strain

    Ultimately, populism will always be a temporary phenomenon because its economic policy prescriptions simply do not work. Parties that want to position themselves for success over the long term must provide sound economic management.

     draws on history to assess the durability of Donald Trump's brand of politics.
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    Trump’s Pro-Corporate Populism Cannot Last

    Eric Posner thinks the next president will be forced to choose between big business and the forgotten man.
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    Why DOGE and Musk Will Fail

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca identify a fundamental flaw in the design of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”
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    Did Neoliberalism Kill American Democracy?

    As US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to make good on his threats to upend American institutions, the pressure is on his opponents to figure out how to defend, and eventually strengthen, US democracy. But first they must understand how the United States reached this point.

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    Why Bidenomics Did Not Deliver at the Polls

    Dani Rodrik thinks the Democrats were right to embrace economic populism, but neglected to update it for this century.
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    Anticipating Trump’s Foreign Policy

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers what can be gleaned from the president-elect’s past statements, recent appointments, and US history.
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    Tariff Man’s Risky Bet

    Carla Norrlöf

    In betting that the economic fallout from his sweeping new tariffs will be worth the gains in border security, US President Donald Trump is gambling with America’s long-term influence and prosperity. In the future, more countries will have even stronger reasons to try to reduce their reliance on the United States.

     thinks Donald Trump's trade policies will undermine the very goals they aim to achieve.
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    The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

    Melissa Parke calls for eliminating arsenals to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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    A Sputnik Moment for AI?

    Daron Acemoglu

    While America’s AI industry arguably needed shaking up, the news of a Chinese startup beating Big Tech at its own game raises some difficult questions. Fortunately, if US tech leaders and policymakers can take the right lessons from DeepSeek's success, we could all end up better for it.

     considers what an apparent Chinese breakthrough means for the US tech industry, and innovation more broadly.
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    Danish Media’s United Stand Against Big Tech

    Karen Rønde urges all publishers to bargain collectively to secure the fair compensation quality journalism requires.
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    East Asia Braces for Trump 2.0

    Takatoshi Ito warns America’s key regional allies to be prepared to make concessions to the new US administration.
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    Africa Needs Mineral Security, Too

    Daniel M. Franks & Rüya Perincek highlight the necessity of building local value chains tailored to the continent’s economic realities.
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    Mitigating AI’s Climate Costs

    Sherif Elsayed-Ali proposes ways to realize the technology’s potential while mitigating its massive carbon footprint.
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    What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Venezuela?

    Moisés Naím thinks the Maduro regime’s fate – and the country’s future – will be largely shaped by US policymakers.
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    Does Globalization Have a Future?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. worries that we will end up with only harmful long-distance dependencies, rather than beneficial ones.

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