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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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    Big Tech, But Bigger

    Margaret O'Mara explains how the AI boom will differ from the 1990s-2000s internet boom to which it is often compared.
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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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    How a Man’s World Systematically Neglects Women

    Navika Mehta highlights the high costs of not accounting explicitly for both sexes in research, design, and policymaking.
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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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    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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  1. A Big Defeat for Big Tech
    stiglitz331_serggnGetty Images_techregulation serggn/Getty Images

    A Big Defeat for Big Tech

    Mar 18, 2024 Joseph E. Stiglitz details how the industry tried to slip extraordinary protections against regulation into US trade agreements.

  2. Haiti’s Proud Boys
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    Haiti’s Proud Boys

    Mar 18, 2024 Slavoj Žižek warns that rich Western democracies are not immune to politically motivated gang violence.

  3. Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset
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    Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset

    Mar 18, 2024 Connie Hedegaard emphasizes the importance of stability amid persistent economic and geopolitical crises.

  4. The Truth About US Immigration
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    The Truth About US Immigration

    Mar 18, 2024 Nancy Qian warns that overheated campaign-season rhetoric is dangerously polarizing and ultimately self-defeating.

  5. The Zombification of Political Parties
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    The Zombification of Political Parties

    Mar 15, 2024 Jan-Werner Mueller argues that Donald Trump’s capture of the GOP’s organizational machinery recalls authoritarian tactics elsewhere.

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    How Capitalism Became a Threat to Democracy

    Mordecai Kurz

    Though we lack precise statics on the matter, it is safe to say that rising market power, automation, and globalization have degraded the lives of tens of millions of Americans. Those harmed view their plight as a profound injustice and have also lost faith in the political system that betrayed them.

    examines the economic policies and market dynamics that have ushered in America's Second Gilded Age.
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    Will Today’s Tech Wave Drown Developing Countries?

    Xiaolan Fu considers how lower-income economies can respond to the rise of technologies unsuited to their specific needs.
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    Nina L. Khrushcheva on Navalny, Putin, Russian elections, and more

    Nina L. Khrushcheva argues that seizing Russia’s central-bank assets would harm the West’s international reputation, highlights cracks in the Russian regime, calls warnings that Vladimir Putin plans to invade NATO irresponsible, and more.
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    Making Bretton Woods Work for Africa

    Hippolyte Fofack envisions a reformed global financial architecture that provides equal access to long-term patient capital.
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    The War for the West

    Ivan Krastev interviewed by Sławomir Sierakowski about the conflict in Ukraine and the challenges facing Western democracies in a changing world.
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    Which AI Risks Matter?

    Edoardo Campanella considers three leading experts’ assessments of the technology’s future capabilities and their implications.

“It is better to ask forgiveness than permission” has been the mantra of the digital revolution so far, and one should not expect that to change with artificial intelligence. For those already in a position to dominate this potentially groundbreaking sector, the opportunities are too enticing to miss.

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    Omar Andrés Camacho & Soipan Tuya tout the progress Colombia and Kenya have made in advancing the clean-energy transition.
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    Degrowth Is a Dead End

    Alessio Terzi argues that the movement lacks a coherent theory of change and faces insurmountable political obstacles.
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    Roselyn Fosuah Adjei explains how nature-based offsets could help reduce emissions and benefit local communities.

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