Skip to main content

SubscriberExclusiveLandingHero
  1. pavlova1_pishitGetty Images_womanbusinessleader pishit/Getty Images

    The Global Economy’s Biggest Untapped Resource

    Featured in this Big Picture

    Indermit Gill, Tea Trumbic, Nadia Calviño, Kristalina Georgieva, Odile Renaud-Basso, Rudo Kayombo, Yanis Varoufakis

    At the current rate of progress, it will take about 300 years to end child marriage, 286 years to deliver full gender equality under the law, and 140 years to achieve equal representation in leadership positions in the workplace, the United Nations reports. This moral failure is compounded by its enormous opportunity cost: a massive improvement in human welfare.

  2. bp putin election Photo by Contributor/Getty Images

    How Resilient Is Putin?

    Featured in this Big Picture

    Anastassia Fedyk , Yuriy Gorodnichenko , Michael R. Strain , Nina L. Khrushcheva , Robin Brooks , Simon Johnson , Ian Buruma

    As Russia prepares for another sham presidential election, the West is introducing new sanctions over the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, considering seizing some $300 billion of Russian central-bank assets, and struggling to overcome political hurdles to continued support for Ukraine. How, if at all, will these developments affect Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grip on political power?

  3. op_xfu1_Jason MarzGetty Images_technologywave Jason MarzGetty Images

    Will Today’s Tech Wave Drown Developing Countries?

    Xiaolan Fu considers how lower-income economies can respond to the rise of technologies unsuited to their specific needs.
  4. onpoint-promotion-module

    Introductory Offer

    Subscribe now to gain greater access to Project Syndicate starting at less than $5 per month.

    Upgrade Your Subscription

  5. GettyImages-1953201732

    Nina L. Khrushcheva on Navalny, Putin, Russian elections, and more

    Nina L. Khrushcheva argues that seizing Russia’s central-bank assets would harm the West’s international reputation, highlights cracks in the Russian regime, calls warnings that Vladimir Putin plans to invade NATO irresponsible, and more.
  6. op_fofack3_Sean GallupGetty Images_rutogeorgieva Sean Gallup/Getty Images

    Making Bretton Woods Work for Africa

    Hippolyte Fofack envisions a reformed global financial architecture that provides equal access to long-term patient capital.
  7. op_krastev3_Manu ReinoDeFodi Images via Getty Images_ukraineflag Manu Reino/DeFodi Images via Getty Images

    The War for the West

    Ivan Krastev interviewed by Sławomir Sierakowski about the conflict in Ukraine and the challenges facing Western democracies in a changing world.
  8. op_campanella12_BlackJack3DGetty Images_AIbrain BlackJack3D/Getty Images

    Which AI Risks Matter?

    Edoardo Campanella considers three leading experts’ assessments of the technology’s future capabilities and their implications.
  9. bq eu security Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

    Europe Must Defend Itself

    Featured in this Big Picture

    Joschka Fischer , Philippe Legrain , Mark Leonard , Daniela Schwarzer

    Donald Trump – who spent his presidency lambasting NATO – recently suggested that he would encourage Russian aggression against NATO allies that had not met their commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defense. With Trump vying for another term in the White House – and the Ukraine war still raging on the European Union’s doorstep – EU countries can no longer ignore the difficult but essential task of taking charge of their own security.

  10. GettyImages-1515913422

    Tim O'Reilly on AI development, regulation, copyright lawsuits, and more

    Tim O'Reilly shows how the imperatives of modern capitalism impede the development of broadly beneficial artificial intelligence, criticizes prevailing regulatory approaches to data privacy, considers how Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos went from value-creators to value-extractors, and more.
  11. op_livingston4_PolinmrGetty Images_capitalism money Polinmr/Getty Images

    What Was Capitalism?

    James Livingston asks whether those at the commanding heights of today's economy are steering us toward feudalism or fatuousness.
  12. bp ban trump Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

    Defensive Democracy

    Featured in this Big Picture

    Eric Posner, Jan-Werner Mueller, Michael Bröning, Daniela Schwarzer, Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    As the US Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is eligible to appear on the Colorado primary ballot – and, effectively, to run in this year’s presidential election – Germany is engaged in a heated debate about whether to ban the far-right Alternative für Deutschland. While disqualification of anti-democratic candidates and parties has been the exception in the world’s democracies, has it now become necessary?

  13. op_skaczynski1_DEVI RAHMANAFP via Getty Images_nft Devi Rahman/AFP via Getty Images

    The Rise of Consumer Crypto

    Steve Kaczynski & Scott Duke Kominers detail a wide range of business uses for non-fungible tokens and other blockchain-based technologies.
  14. mmuniz2_Malte MuellerGetty Images_AIrobot Malte Mueller/Getty Images

    Robert Skidelsky on Keynes, AI, the future of work, and more

    Robert Skidelsky argues that the best way to secure supply chains is peace, highlights three grave risks posed by artificial intelligence, challenges the notion that science and religion should be regarded as opposites, and more.

“It is better to ask forgiveness than permission” has been the mantra of the digital revolution so far, and one should not expect that to change with artificial intelligence. For those already in a position to dominate this potentially groundbreaking sector, the opportunities are too enticing to miss.

Learn more
1Q2024_Profit-and-Peril_DG_background

Edit Newsletter Preferences

Set up Notification

To receive email updates regarding this {entity_type}, please enter your email below.

If you are not already registered, this will create a PS account for you. You should receive an activation email shortly.