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  1. Milan Vaishnav is the director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics.

  2. Mary Lou Valdez is Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization.

  3. Vidya Vasu-Devan is Director of the Strategic Investment Fund at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  4. Ivan Vejvoda is Vice President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

  5. Erion Veliaj is Mayor of Tirana.

  6. Stefaan G. Verhulst

    Stefaan G. Verhulst

    1 Commentary

    Stefaan G. Verhulst is Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the GovLab at New York University.

  7. Maarten Verwey is Director-General of Economic and Financial Affairs for the European Commission.

  8. Francisco Vidal Luna

    Francisco Vidal Luna

    1 Commentary

    Francisco Vidal Luna, Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of São Paulo, is co-author, most recently, of Feeding the World: Brazil’s Transformation into a Modern Agricultural Economy and Modern Brazil: A Social History.

  9. Klaas van Egmond is Professor of Geosciences at Utrecht University.

  10. Viktor Vanberg

    Viktor Vanberg

    Writing for PS since 1997
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Economics, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  11. Xavier Vives

    Xavier Vives

    Writing for PS since 2000
    18 Commentaries

    Xavier Vives, Professor of Economics and Finance at IESE Business School, is the co-author (with Darrell Duffie, Thierry Foucault, and Laura Veldkamp) of the report Technology and Finance.

  12. Harold E. Varmus

    Harold E. Varmus

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. From 1993 to 1999 he was Director of the US National Institutes of Health. A Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989).

  13. Andrés Velasco

    Andrés Velasco

    Writing for PS since 2001
    138 Commentaries

    Andrés Velasco, a former presidential candidate and finance minister of Chile, is Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of numerous books and papers on international economics and development, and has served on the faculty at Harvard, Columbia, and New York Universities. 

  14. Antje Vollmer

    Antje Vollmer

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    Vice-President of the German Bundestag.

  15. Peter van Walsum

    Peter van Walsum

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Represented the Netherlands on the UN Security Council in 1999 and 2000. During that time he was chairman of the Iraq sanctions committee.

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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
  2. op_reedlangen6_Chip SomodevillaGetty Images_supremecourt Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen

    Rather than seeing themselves as the arbiters of divine precepts, Supreme Court justices after World War II generally understood that constitutional jurisprudence must respond to the realities of the day. Yet today's conservatives have seized on the legacy of one of the few justices who did not.

    considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

    blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric's coalition for the rapid rise of far right populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Creeping Toward Dystopia

    Robert Skidelsky worries that even elected governments will appropriate emerging technologies in the name of national security.
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    The Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming

    Sameh Shoukry assesses recent efforts to implement a crucial initiative agreed at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.
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    How Can the New EU Regulation Achieve Deforestation-Free Supply Chains?

    Joann de Zegher explains why transaction-level records are crucial to curbing the destruction of the world’s forests.

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