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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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    Readying the Resistance, Again

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca

    The United States is not a monarchy, but a federal republic. States and cities controlled by Democrats represent half the country, and they can resist Donald Trump’s overreach by using the tools of progressive federalism, many of which were sharpened during his first administration.

     see Democrat-controlled states as a potential check on Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    Russia’s Nostalgia Machine

    Nina L. Khrushcheva explores how the Kremlin relies on an idealized version of the past to comfort – and subdue – the public.
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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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    Our AI Near-Future

    Charles Ferguson offers a brief roadmap of how the technology will evolve and be deployed over the next few years.
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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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  1. Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals
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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Jan 22, 2025 Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.

  2. Readying the Resistance, Again
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    Readying the Resistance, Again

    Jan 22, 2025 Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca see Democrat-controlled states as a potential check on Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.

  3. Russia’s Nostalgia Machine
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    Russia’s Nostalgia Machine

    Jan 22, 2025 Nina L. Khrushcheva explores how the Kremlin relies on an idealized version of the past to comfort – and subdue – the public.

  4. The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development
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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Jan 22, 2025 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.

  5. Trump at the Gates
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    Trump at the Gates

    Jan 21, 2025 Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.

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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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    Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

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    Daron Acemoglu, Bruce Ackerman, Aziz Huq, Alison L. LaCroix, Richard K. Sherwin

    While some observers doubt that US President-elect Donald Trump poses a grave threat to US democracy, others are bracing themselves for the destruction of the country’s constitutional order. With Trump’s inauguration just around the corner, we asked PS commentators how vulnerable US institutions really are.

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    Ricardo Hausmann on immigration, climate finance, economic complexity, and more

    Ricardo Hausmann urges the US to issue more H1-B visas, argues that Europe must become a military superpower in its own right, applies the “growth diagnostics” framework to Venezuela, and more.
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    The Truth About Migration

    Ian Goldin warns that stricter border controls often exacerbate the very problems they aim to solve.
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    What Will Trump Do to the US Economy?

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    PS editors , Joseph E. Stiglitz , Kenneth Rogoff , Sylvester Eijffinger , Edin Mujagic , Nouriel Roubini , Simon Johnson

    From cutting taxes to raising tariffs to eroding central-bank independence, US President-elect Donald Trump has made a wide range of economic promises, many of which threaten to blow up the deficit and fuel inflation. But powerful institutional, political, and economic constraints, together with Trump’s capriciousness, have spurred disagreement about how worried we should be.

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    Our AI Near-Future

    Charles Ferguson offers a brief roadmap of how the technology will evolve and be deployed over the next few years.

The world’s diplomatic, political, and economic divisions continue to harden – both between countries and within them. Whereas 2022 and 2023 featured a war of attrition in Ukraine, we have since entered a broader world of attrition, with zero-sum conflicts multiplying across the board.

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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.
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    The Climate Policy Pendulum

    Gernot Wagner notes that green technologies retain their many advantages, regardless of national political developments.
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    What Climate Justice Means for Latin America and the Caribbean

    Thiago Barral & Woochong Um urge policymakers to work with key stakeholders to accelerate the uptake of renewables.

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  4. Glenn Hubbard How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

  1. Laura Tyson, et al. Readying the Resistance, Again
  2. Nina L. Khrushcheva Russia’s Nostalgia Machine
  3. Joschka Fischer Trump at the Gates
  4. Joseph E. Stiglitz The End of Progress?

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  1. Slavoj Žižek Fundamentalist Perverts
  2. Ian Buruma Ukraine’s Existential Culture War
  3. Helen Prejean An Injustice That Biden Can Still Set Right
  4. Peter Singer Australia’s Great Social-Media Experiment

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

  1. Pascal Lamy, et al. The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap
  2. Hippolyte Fofack Trump Can’t Stop De-Dollarization
  3. Adekeye Adebajo What Trump’s Return Means for Africa

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

As the COVID-19 crisis escalates, PS commentators assess its implications for the economy, propose policy responses, and consider what might – and sho…

  1. Brahma Chellaney Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?
  2. Antara Haldar COVID’s Lessons Have All Been Forgotten
  3. Gro Harlem Brundtland Recommitting to Pandemic Preparedness