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331 commentaries, Updated on 12 Sep 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. Hippolyte Fofack Confronting Africa’s Cost-of-Living Crisis
  2. Kehinde A. Togun What’s Driving Africa’s Protests?
  3. Adekeye Adebajo Africa’s Future Hinges on Revitalizing Multilateralism
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63 commentaries, Updated on 19 Aug 2024

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

  1. Joschka Fischer This Time Is Different in the Middle East
  2. Shlomo Ben-Ami Gaza and the Apocalypse
  3. Anne-Marie Slaughter, et al. Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women
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116 commentaries, Updated on 13 Sep 2024

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

  1. Hugo Drochon Macron’s Trial by Fire
  2. Helmut K. Anheier Will the German Center Hold?
  3. Jorge Heine What a Trump Victory Would Mean for Latin America
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138 commentaries, Updated on 21 Aug 2024

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

  1. Laura Alfers, et al. Protecting Informal Workers from Extreme Heat
  2. Anna Husarska A Glimmer of Hope for Afghanistan’s Girls and Women
  3. Yasmine Sherif Giving Afghan Girls the Education They Demand
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35 commentaries, Updated on 4 Sep 2024

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

  1. Christian Catalini, et al. Crypto Policy Needs to Empower Builders, Not Speculators
  2. Elisabeth Carpenter, et al. Why Most Firms Fail to Capitalize on New Technologies
  3. Jordan Bleicher, et al. The Geopolitical Imperative to Upgrade the Dollar
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94 commentaries, Updated on 3 Sep 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. Nadia Calviño, et al. Small-Island Solidarity and Climate Common Sense
  2. Laura Carvalho The Dead Hand of Neoliberalism Is Blocking Green Growth
  3. Mary Robinson Rich Countries Must Meet Their Biodiversity Financing Pledges
Putin's War on Ukraine

458 commentaries, Updated on 6 Sep 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. Samuel Charap, et al. How to Make the Most of the Kursk Gambit
  2. Chris Patten The Enduring Lessons of Stalin’s Wartime Endgame
  3. Roger Myerson, et al. How NATO Can Help End the Ukraine War
The Light Bulb

61 commentaries, Updated on 5 Aug 2024

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

  1. Mariana Mazzucato Collective Intelligence and the Common Good
  2. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
  3. Mariana Mazzucato The Economics of Health for All
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52 commentaries, Updated on 4 Sep 2024

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

  1. Kehinde A. Togun What’s Driving Africa’s Protests?
  2. Anna Husarska A Glimmer of Hope for Afghanistan’s Girls and Women
  3. Nicholas Reed Langen British Judges Are Carrying Water for China
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112 commentaries, Updated on 4 Sep 2024

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

  1. Angela Huyue Zhang Authoritarian Countries’ AI Advantage
  2. Peter G. Kirchschläger Beware of Big Tech Steering AI Regulation
  3. Diane Coyle Will the AI Revolution Lead to Greater Prosperity?
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255 commentaries, Updated on 3 Sep 2024

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

  1. Brahma Chellaney The West’s Stealthy Assault on Democracy
  2. Daron Acemoglu The Trump Threat to Democracy Has Only Grown
  3. Mark Jones How Fascism Happens
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137 commentaries, Updated on 14 Aug 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. Geoff Mulgan The Right to Truth
  2. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
  3. Antonio Zappulla To Protect Democracy, Protect Exiled Journalists
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    Kamala Harris’s Liberal Patriotism

    Andrés Velasco & Daniel Brieba

    The US presidential candidate's appeal to love of country is the right thing at the right time. Disregard the surfeit of flags and overwrought rhetoric: a healthy dose of patriotism is required to win an election, in the US or anywhere else, and it is – and should be – an essential component of liberal and progressive politics.

    explain why the Democratic US presidential candidate's appeal to love of country is good politics.
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    Confronting Africa’s Cost-of-Living Crisis

    Hippolyte Fofack

    While inflation and price growth have fallen in advanced economies, they remain stubbornly high in Africa, owing to rising food prices, the lack of formal employment opportunities, and austerity measures. The resulting protests in Nigeria and Kenya should encourage governments to rethink constraints on public spending.

    urges governments to rethink constraints on public spending and increase investment in human capital.
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    Why Rome Still Matters

    Shlomo Ben-Ami considers the ancient empire’s hold on the popular imagination and what its history has to teach us.
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    Egypt’s Skyrocketing C-Sections

    Rana Hendy & Lobna Shaheen urge policymakers to take decisive steps to address the inequalities fueling the rise in cesarean deliveries.
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    Asia’s Consumer Tipping Point

    Juan Caballero & Wolfgang Fengler highlight a milestone that marks the transition from poverty to a more typical middle-class lifestyle.
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    Kishore Mahbubani on the US-China rivalry, Asian security risks, and more

    Kishore Mahbubani offers advice to Western diplomats attempting to engage with Asia, identifies risks to the region’s stability, highlights Singapore’s lessons for developing-country leaders, and more.
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    Tracking Air Quality the Right Way

    Soumya Swaminathan & Christa Hasenkopf call for an authoritative global accounting of the world’s single greatest external risk to human health.
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    Countries That March Together Should Trade Together

    Todd G. Buchholz urges the next US president to distinguish good from bad actors, rather than raise tariffs haphazardly.
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    Resetting US-China Economic Relations

    Barry Eichengreen hopes that political will on both sides catches up with the opporunities for cooperation that now exist.

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