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327 commentaries, Updated on 22 Jul 2024

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Paola Subacchi A Growth Agenda for the G20
  2. Adekeye Adebajo Africa’s Hobbled Hegemons
  3. Linguère Mously Mbaye Rethinking How to Address Irregular Migration from Africa
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61 commentaries, Updated on 26 Jul 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the conflict in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

  1. Anne-Marie Slaughter, et al. Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women
  2. Shlomo Ben-Ami Israel Is Enabling Iran’s War of Attrition
  3. Dmitry Muratov, et al. Restore the Olympic Peace
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99 commentaries, Updated on 26 Jul 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the issues and trends shaping the biggest global election year in history.

  1. Andrés Velasco In Praise of First-Past-the-Post
  2. Antara Haldar What Democrats Can Learn from the Science of Cooperation
  3. Robert Skidelsky Labour’s Economic Plan Lacks Keynesian Ambition
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134 commentaries, Updated on 26 Jul 2024

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Project Syndicate is highlighting a selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on iss…

  1. Anne-Marie Slaughter, et al. Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women
  2. Natalia Kanem Supporting Sexual and Reproductive Health Is Good Business
  3. Titir Bhattacharya, et al. Can Private Hospitals Increase Access to Health Care in Developing Countries?
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33 commentaries, Updated on 24 Jun 2024

In Finance of the Future, Project Syndicate, with support from Circle, brings together leading experts, innovators, regulators, and more to examine th…

  1. Jordan Bleicher, et al. The Geopolitical Imperative to Upgrade the Dollar
  2. Agustín Carstens, et al. The Rise of the Finternet
  3. Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Central Banks in a Cashless World
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93 commentaries, Updated on 22 Jul 2024

As former Irish President Mary Robinson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu pointed out nearly a decade ago, “climate change is a matter of ju…

  1. Laura Carvalho The Dead Hand of Neoliberalism Is Blocking Green Growth
  2. Mary Robinson Rich Countries Must Meet Their Biodiversity Financing Pledges
  3. Mia Amor Mottley, et al. What Climate-Vulnerable Developing Countries Need Right Now
Putin's War on Ukraine

448 commentaries, Updated on 23 Jul 2024

Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory in Ukraine for which it apparently hoped, but a prolonged war of attrition would amount to a different …

  1. Carl Bildt A Hillbilly Elegy for Ukraine and the West
  2. Martin Vladimirov Europe Must Clamp Down on Russian Oil Flows Through Turkey
  3. Dmitry Muratov, et al. Restore the Olympic Peace
The Light Bulb

60 commentaries, Updated on 21 Jun 2024

In The New Enlightenment, Project Syndicate, in partnership with The New Institute, brings together leading experts, academics, practitioners, and pol…

  1. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
  2. Mariana Mazzucato The Economics of Health for All
  3. Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Governments Must Shape AI’s Future
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49 commentaries, Updated on 15 Jul 2024

Activists, campaigners, and other experts consider how to support freedom, justice, and human dignity globally.

  1. Gordon Brown What to Do About the Taliban’s Gender Apartheid
  2. Abdullah Gül The Case for Optimism in the Muslim World
  3. Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir How to Close the Gender Wage Gap
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102 commentaries, Updated on 26 Jul 2024

PS commentators consider how to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks created by artificial intelligence.

  1. Jean-Pierre Landau Will AI Kill Off Money?
  2. Martin Beraja, et al. China Is Exporting Its AI Surveillance State
  3. Dambisa Moyo Where Will the AI Super Cycle Lead?
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245 commentaries, Updated on 26 Jul 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the growing threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law around the world.

  1. Enrique Krauze A Philosopher for Our Times
  2. Martin Beraja, et al. China Is Exporting Its AI Surveillance State
  3. Nina L. Khrushcheva Biden Rejects the Drug of Power
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136 commentaries, Updated on 22 Jul 2024

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
  2. Antonio Zappulla To Protect Democracy, Protect Exiled Journalists
  3. Jodie Ginsberg Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom
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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
  9. asadullah16_ MUNIR UZ ZAMANAFP via Getty Images_bangladesh MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images

    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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