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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    Slavoj Žižek sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.
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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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    Backsliding on Maternal Mortality

    Natalia Kanem urges governments to take immediate, proven steps to ensure that childbirth is a time of life, not death.
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    The Benin Bronzes’ Bungled Return

    Helmut K. Anheier explains why impartial intermediaries are crucial to facilitating sensitive cultural exchanges.
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    China and India Have Fewer People Than the UN Thinks

    Yi Fuxian explains why the United Nations failed to predict the biggest demographic shifts of the past decade.
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    Law’s Struggle for Dignity

    Nicholas Reed Langen considers the basic principles at stake in Israel's conflict over judicial independence.
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    Half a Century of Animal Liberation Is Not Enough

    Peter Singer explains why he is publishing a thoroughly revised and updated edition of his classic book.
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    Listening to Arab Youth

    Jihad Azour urges policymakers to tackle the job crisis and enable entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa.
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    Revisiting the Behavioral Revolution in Economics

    Antara Haldar assesses the legacy of the intellectual challenge to the view that rational self-interest guides our actions.
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    New AI Germ Busters Can Also Bust Unions

    Yanis Varoufakis shows how an AI-driven biomedical breakthrough could rob workers of what little power they have left.
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    Globalization’s Warring Narratives

    Harold James examines the analytical disagreements that are hampering management of an unavoidable phenomenon.
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    The Digital Economy’s New Monetary Imperative

    Piroska Nagy Mohácsi

    In a rapidly digitalizing world, central banks are staring down a future in which they may lack the tools necessary to manage crises, and in which they may no longer be able to protect their monetary sovereignty. They should recognize that digital currency is a source of institutional salvation.

     thinks governments must embrace central bank digital currencies or risk a fundamental loss of control.
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    Europe’s Climate Quandary

    Jean Pisani-Ferry assesses the inevitable trade-offs the European Union must confront in achieving its clean-energy targets.
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    Governing the Unknown

    Kaushik Basu suggests a few principles to guide policymakers as they try to keep up with rapidly advancing technologies.
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    Fast-Tracking a Lassa Fever Vaccine

    Oyeronke Oyebanji outlines what West African governments can learn from the development and distribution of the COVID-19 jab.
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    Climate Science Beats Climate Fatalism

    Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, et al. show that the more ambitious 1.5º target for global warming is still feasible – and more necessary than ever.
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    Turkey’s Pragmatic Islamist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami expects Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s latest electoral victory to have little impact on Turkish foreign policy.

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