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Achal Prabhala

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Achal Prabhala, a former fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation, is a coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil, and South Africa.

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  1. Brazil's Pioneering Solution to Vaccine Shortages
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    Brazil's Pioneering Solution to Vaccine Shortages

    Dec 2, 2021 Joseph E. Stiglitz, et al. think the country’s lawmakers have the right idea about overriding corporate monopolies on vaccines.

  2. Patents vs. the Pandemic
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    Patents vs. the Pandemic

    Apr 23, 2020 Joseph E. Stiglitz, et al. show why the intellectual-property regime for life-saving drugs should not survive the COVID-19 crisis.

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    “America First” in Action

    Peter Singer assesses the damage Donald Trump has already done to long-term US interests since returning to the White House.
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    Technofeudalism Is War’s Handmaiden

    Yanis Varoufakis explains how the rise of cloud capital is steering the world toward well-known strategic traps.
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    The Positive Case for Negative Rates

    Willem H. Buiter & Ebrahim Rahbari see the widely scorned monetary-policy tool as a necessary option in the absence of fiscal alternatives.
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    Will DeepSeek Upend US Tech Dominance?

    Angela Huyue Zhang says the firm’s disruption of the AI industry is about market – not great-power – competition.
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    Breaking US Democracy Beyond Repair

    Ian Buruma warns that Donald Trump’s efforts to tear down America’s “civic religion” will be difficult to reverse.
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    Can the Liberal International Order Survive Without America?

    Chris Patten urges Western countries to safeguard the institutions that have underpinned their postwar stability.
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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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