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348 commentaries, Updated on 29 Jan 2025

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Rim Berahab, et al. How to Make Carbon Pricing Work for Africa
  2. Pascal Lamy, et al. The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap
  3. Hippolyte Fofack Trump Can’t Stop De-Dollarization
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77 commentaries, Updated on 16 Dec 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the conflict in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

  1. Dennis Ross Will Stability Rise from the Middle East Rubble?
  2. Daoud Kuttab Trump’s Middle East Challenge
  3. Richard Haass A New Chance for the Middle East
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134 commentaries, Updated on 30 Dec 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the issues and trends shaping the biggest global election year in history.

  1. Ngaire Woods A Politics of Hope Is Our Best Hope
  2. Sergei Guriev AI Has Not Yet Destroyed Democracy
  3. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President
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147 commentaries, Updated on 11 Dec 2024

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Project Syndicate is highlighting a selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on iss…

  1. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President
  2. María Fernanda Espinosa Did COP29 Fail Women?
  3. Xianghong Wang The Second Glass Ceiling for Women
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40 commentaries, Updated on 31 Jan 2025

In Finance of the Future, Project Syndicate, with support from Circle, brings together leading experts, innovators, regulators, and more to examine th…

  1. Lucrezia Reichlin Will Crypto Save the Dollar?
  2. Carl Manlan, et al. Fintech Must Embrace Universal Inclusion
  3. Andrés Velasco Crypto’s Unholy Choir
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111 commentaries, Updated on 29 Jan 2025

As former Irish President Mary Robinson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu pointed out nearly a decade ago, “climate change is a matter of ju…

  1. Rim Berahab, et al. How to Make Carbon Pricing Work for Africa
  2. Jayasree K. Iyer Climate Displacement Is Also a Health Crisis
  3. Ana Toni How to Make COP30 a Climate Turning Point
Putin's War on Ukraine

483 commentaries, Updated on 30 Jan 2025

Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory in Ukraine for which it apparently hoped, but a prolonged war of attrition would amount to a different …

  1. Håvard Halland, et al. Norway Should Cede Its War Windfall to Ukraine
  2. Anders Åslund Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation
  3. Daniel Gros Is It the Hour of Europe Again?
The Light Bulb

62 commentaries, Updated on 13 Jan 2025

In The New Enlightenment, Project Syndicate, in partnership with The New Institute, brings together leading experts, academics, practitioners, and pol…

  1. Yana Gevorgyan AI Alone Won’t Save the Planet
  2. Mariana Mazzucato Collective Intelligence and the Common Good
  3. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
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63 commentaries, Updated on 15 Jan 2025

Activists, campaigners, and other experts consider how to support freedom, justice, and human dignity globally.

  1. Lilian Coral, et al. Texas’s Online Age-Verification Law Must Be Overturned
  2. Helen Prejean An Injustice That Biden Can Still Set Right
  3. Gordon Brown Gender Apartheid Is a Crime Against Humanity
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134 commentaries, Updated on 30 Jan 2025

PS commentators consider how to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks created by artificial intelligence.

  1. Amar Bhidé Is DeepSeek Really a Threat?
  2. Dambisa Moyo Three Reasons Why AI’s Momentum Could Stall in 2025
  3. Philippe Aghion, et al. What AI Means for Growth and Jobs
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290 commentaries, Updated on 30 Jan 2025

Project Syndicate commentaries on the growing threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law around the world.

  1. Håvard Halland, et al. Norway Should Cede Its War Windfall to Ukraine
  2. Katharina Pistor The New Washington Consensus
  3. Joschka Fischer Trump at the Gates
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138 commentaries, Updated on 16 Oct 2024

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Katrin Kivi The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger
  2. Geoff Mulgan The Right to Truth
  3. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
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    Trump’s Industrial Policy Is More Continuity Than Disruption

    Elisabeth Reynolds thinks that rebuilding America’s manufacturing base has become a central pillar of the US economic agenda.
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    Oligarchy in America

    Though Donald Trump attracted more support than ever from working-class voters in the 2024 US presidential election, he has long embraced an agenda that benefits the wealthiest Americans above all. During his second term, however, Trump seems committed not just to serving America’s ultra-rich, but to letting them wield state power themselves.

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    Give the UK Growth Agenda a Chance

    Mohamed A. El-Erian sees promise in the current government’s economic-policy plan despite its imperfections.
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    Islam on Trial in India

    Shashi Tharoor warns that efforts to replace centuries-old mosques with Hindu temples could trigger communal violence.
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    Will Crypto Save the Dollar?

    Lucrezia Reichlin asks whether the Trump administration's stablecoin strategy can preserve the greenback's global hegemony.
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    The Tragedy of Zhou Enlai

    Minxin Pei

    The reputation of China's longest-serving premier has fared far better than that of the Maoist regime he faithfully served. Zhou's political survival skills enabled him to survive many purges, and even to steer Mao away from potential disasters, but he could not escape the Chairman's cruelty, even at the end of his life.

    reflects on the complicated life and legacy of the renowned diplomat who was Mao Zedong’s dutiful lieutenant.
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    How Liberals Lost America

    Andrés Velasco attributes Donald Trump’s return to power to Democrats’ embrace of both moral neutrality and moral preachiness.
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    Norway Should Cede Its War Windfall to Ukraine

    Håvard Halland & Knut Anton Mork say that the government's justifications for its war profiteering are disingenuous and short-sighted.
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    Is DeepSeek Really a Threat?

    Amar Bhidé explains what a purported Chinese AI breakthrough does and does not mean for the industry.

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