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  1. Cédric O

    Cédric O

    Writing for PS since 2023
    1 Commentary

    Cédric O is a former French secretary of state for the digital economy (2019-22).

  2. Michael O'Boyle

    Michael O'Boyle

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Michael O’Boyle is Director of Electricity Policy at Energy Innovation.

  3. John O'Brennan

    John O'Brennan

    Writing for PS since 2008
    6 Commentaries

    John O’ Brennan is Director of European Studies and a lecturer in European Politics at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM).

  4. Gus O'Donnell

    Gus O'Donnell

    Writing for PS since 2014
    2 Commentaries

    Gus O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary to Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, is now Chairman of Frontier Economics and a member of the UK House of Lords.

  5. Megan O'Donnell

    Megan O'Donnell

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Megan O’Donnell leads the Center for Global Development’s COVID-19 Gender and Development Initiative.

  6. Stephen O'Driscoll

    Stephen O'Driscoll

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Stephen O’Driscoll is Head of Environment, Climate, and Social Policy at the European Investment Bank.

  7. Michael O'Hanlon

    Michael O'Hanlon

    Writing for PS since 2014
    1 Commentary

    Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

  8. Margaret O'Mara

    Margaret O'Mara

    Writing for PS since 2024
    2 Commentaries

    Margaret O’Mara is Professor of American History at the University of Washington and the author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Penguin Press, 2019) and Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005).

  9. Shane O'Mara

    Shane O'Mara

    Writing for PS since 2016
    1 Commentary

    Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator at the Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College, and the author of Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation.

  10. Jim O'Neill

    Jim O'Neill

    Writing for PS since 2008
    131 Commentaries

    Jim O’Neill, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and a former UK treasury minister, is a member of the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development.

  11. Tim O'Reilly

    Tim O'Reilly

    Writing for PS since 2021
    5 Commentaries

    Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., is a visiting professor at University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and the author of WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017).

  12. Dara O'Rourke

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Politics at MIT.

  13. Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

    Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

    Writing for PS since 2011
    3 Commentaries

    Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke is Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford.

  14. Fintan O'Toole is the Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University, columnist at the Irish Times, and the author of Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain.  


  15. Nawaf Obaid

    Nawaf Obaid

    Writing for PS since 2013
    2 Commentaries

    Nawaf Obaid is a visiting fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

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    The Language of Political Control

    Robert Skidelsky views recent linguistic innovations as manipulative efforts to compel “correct” thought and perception.
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    Globalization vs. Democracy

    Kaushik Basu highlights the contradictions and vulnerabilities inherent in the current international order.
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    The West’s New Infrastructure Imperative

    Diane Coyle explains why a broader conception of the term could reflect a renewed interest in investing in the future.
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    An Iran-Israel War?

    Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?

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    What a Climate-Aligned IMF Would Look Like

    Mohamed Nasheed & Rakesh Mohan explain how the managing director can fully position the institution to help the most vulnerable countries.
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    The Key to Transforming African Health

    Jayati Ghosh highlights efforts to foster scientific innovation and drug manufacturing on the continent.
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    China’s Rebalancing Imperative

    Stephen S. Roach

    The most successful development stories almost always involve major shifts in the sources of economic growth, which in turn allow economies to reinvent themselves out of necessity or by design. In China, the interplay of mounting external pressures, lagging household consumption, and falling productivity will increasingly shape China’s policy choices in the years ahead.

    explains why the Chinese authorities should switch to a consumption- and productivity-led growth model.
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    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami

    Designing a progressive anti-violence strategy that delivers the safety for which a huge share of Latin Americans crave is perhaps the most difficult challenge facing many of the region’s governments. But it is also the most important.

    urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.
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    The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    José Antonio Ocampo highlights the need for a comprehensive mechanism to deliver relief to low- and middle-income countries.

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