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  1. 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.  


  2. Jenny Odell is an artist, educator, and the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.

  3. Alassane Ouattara

    Alassane Ouattara

    1 Commentary

    Alassane Ouattara is President of Ivory Coast.

  4. Mancur Olson

    Mancur Olson

    Writing for PS since 1996
    2 Commentaries

    Late Professor of Economics at the University Maryland; Author; Head of the Center on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector at University Maryland.

  5. Viktor Orbán

    Viktor Orbán

    Writing for PS since 1999
    2 Commentaries

    Viktor Orbán is Prime Minister of Hungary.

  6. Dara O'Rourke

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Politics at MIT.

  7. Martha Brill Olcott

    Martha Brill Olcott

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her book Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise was published in 2001.

  8. Claus Offe

    Claus Offe

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Political Science, Humbolt University, Berlin.

  9. Kenichi Ohmae

    Kenichi Ohmae

    Writing for PS since 2002
    4 Commentaries

    One of the world's leading business strategists. He is President of Ohmae & Associates and has advised many of Japan's governments.

  10. Peter Osterman

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Pseudonym of a senior European diplomat with long experience in China.

  11. Ike Okonta

    Ike Okonta

    Writing for PS since 2002
    15 Commentaries

    Ike Okonta, an Abuja-based policy analyst and writer, is currently a fellow of the Open Society Institute, New York.

  12. Manuel Orozco

    Manuel Orozco

    Writing for PS since 2002
    2 Commentaries

    Manuel Orozco is a senior researcher at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration.

  13. Lucjan T. Orlowski

    Lucjan T. Orlowski

    Writing for PS since 2002
    2 Commentaries

    Leading Polish economist, Professor of Economics at Sacred Heart University.

  14. David Onoprishvili

    David Onoprishvili

    Writing for PS since 2003
    1 Commentary

    David Onoprishvili is a former Minster of Finance of Georgia and now teaches at Vanderbilt University.

  15. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

    Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

    Writing for PS since 2004
    2 Commentaries

    Chidi Anselm Odinkalu is Senior Legal Officer for the Africa Program of the Open Society Justice Initiative.

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    China’s Short-Sighted AI Regulation

    Angela Huyue Zhang assesses a recent court ruling allowing copyright protection for content generated by artificial intelligence.
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    AI’s Copyright Problem Is Fixable

    Mike Loukides & Tim O'Reilly show how to trace the provenance of generative models’ output and compensate human authors accordingly.
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    Better Jobs Mean Better Development

    Dani Rodrik shows why rich and poor countries alike will have to enhance employment and productivity in service sectors.
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    Russian Revanchism Must Be Defeated in Ukraine

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub say that political infighting in the West is empowering the Kremlin and its allies.
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    The World Needs a Humble Approach to Central Banking

    Jacob Frenkel, et al.

    As advanced-economy central bankers assess their recent policy responses, failures, and lessons learned, they should recognize where others got it right and where they got it wrong. Humility requires nothing less.

    explain why monetary policymakers must accept a deliberately narrow mandate.
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    Whac-A-Populist

    Though Polish voters in October ousted their right-wing populist government, recent elections in Slovakia and the Netherlands show that populism remains as malign and potent a political force as ever in Europe. But these outcomes also hold important lessons for the United States, where the specter of Donald Trump’s return to the White House haunts the runup to the 2024 presidential election.

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    The Global Economy’s Unsolved Problems

    José Antonio Ocampo offers a sobering assessment of multilateral efforts to tackle debt, development, climate change, and more.
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    Digital Payments Hold the Key to Climate Resilience

    Benjamin E. Diokno urges policymakers and the private sector to embrace the transformative potential of emerging technologies.
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    Pulling the Amazon Back from the Brink

    Carlos Nobre & Marielos Peña-Claros urge policymakers at COP28 to prevent the world’s largest rainforest from crossing perilous tipping points.

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