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353 commentaries, Updated on 11 Apr 2025

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

  1. Ifeanyi M. Nsofor How Should Africa Respond to Foreign-Aid Cuts?
  2. Fatih Birol, et al. What African Electrification Requires
  3. Hippolyte Fofack Dismantling USAID Could Boost African Self-Reliance
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80 commentaries, Updated on 11 Apr 2025

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

  1. Konstanty Gebert Will Qatari Gold Sink Netanyahu?
  2. Ian Buruma Israel’s Blind Spot
  3. Konstanty Gebert Israel Must Not Ignore the Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza
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134 commentaries, Updated on 30 Dec 2024

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

  1. Ngaire Woods A Politics of Hope Is Our Best Hope
  2. Sergei Guriev AI Has Not Yet Destroyed Democracy
  3. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President
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150 commentaries, Updated on 7 Mar 2025

A selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on issues affecting women and girls.

  1. Palwasha Hassan, et al. Let Afghan Women Lead
  2. Kate Kallot The Global South Needs to Own Its AI Revolution
  3. Nathalie Alvarado, et al. Crime Is Punishing Latin America’s Economies
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44 commentaries, Updated on 4 Apr 2025

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

  1. Mark Blyth Trump, Tariffs, and the Fate of the Dollar
  2. Bill Dudley The US Needs Stablecoin Legislation Now
  3. Carla Norrlöf Trump, Bitcoin, and the Future of the Dollar
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116 commentaries, Updated on 21 Mar 2025

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. Gaston Browne A Defining Moment for Energy Security and Economic Prosperity
  2. Jonathan D. Ostry Canada Must Learn From the Green Backlash
  3. Masatsugu Asakawa Meltdown at the Top of the World
Putin's War on Ukraine

502 commentaries, Updated on 11 Apr 2025

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. Nina L. Khrushcheva The US and Russia Are Negotiating in Bad Faith
  2. Anastassia Fedyk, et al. Europe Must Move Faster to Defend Itself
  3. Simon Johnson A US Tariff Idea That Makes Sense
The Light Bulb

62 commentaries, Updated on 13 Jan 2025

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

  1. Yana Gevorgyan AI Alone Won’t Save the Planet
  2. Mariana Mazzucato Collective Intelligence and the Common Good
  3. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
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70 commentaries, Updated on 9 Apr 2025

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

  1. Brahma Chellaney The US Must Change Course on Myanmar
  2. Gordon Brown The Internal Challenge to Afghanistan’s Ban on Girls’ Secondary Education
  3. Florian Juergens-Grant, et al. Future-Proofing Social Protection
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158 commentaries, Updated on 3 Apr 2025

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

  1. Soňa Muzikárová America’s AI Iron Curtain
  2. Pierre du Rostu Insurers Must Embrace Geospatial AI
  3. Shamika Sirimanne, et al. Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?
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321 commentaries, Updated on 11 Apr 2025

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

  1. Konstanty Gebert Will Qatari Gold Sink Netanyahu?
  2. Joschka Fischer American Suicide
  3. Katharine H.S. Moon South Korea’s Flourishing Culture and Teetering Democracy
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143 commentaries, Updated on 3 Apr 2025

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

  1. Heela Rasool-Ayub America’s Voice No Longer Speaks for Democracy
  2. Jessica Dickinson Goodman, et al. Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption
  3. J. Bradford DeLong Trump’s Smoke and Mirrors
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    Will Qatari Gold Sink Netanyahu?

    Konstanty Gebert

    Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to fire the country's internal security chief has raised suspicions, given that the move comes just after the launch of an investigation into a new scandal involving his own aides. Israelis are right to worry that they could now be heading for a constitutional crisis.

    explains the latest scandal to hit Israel's increasingly illiberal, norm-breaking government.
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    The US and Russia Are Negotiating in Bad Faith

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks the Kremlin is laying the groundwork for a highly favorable deal on the Ukraine war.
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    Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Demands More Than Competitiveness

    Marietje Schaake & Max von Thun warn that the European Union’s deregulatory push could undermine its autonomy and fundamental values.
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    How Should Africa Respond to Foreign-Aid Cuts?

    Ifeanyi M. Nsofor touts the potential of foreign remittances to sustain public services as external support shrinks.
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    How Should China Respond to Trump’s Tariffs?

    Huang Yiping urges Chinese policymakers to fill the leadership vacuum created by America’s protectionist turn.
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    Who Will Drive the Post-American Global Economy?

    Jim O'Neill considers what other large economies can do to offset the effects of the Trump administration's trade warfare.
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    Health Is Wealth in a Geriatric World

    Hippolyte Fofack

    The Global South is increasingly at risk of growing old before becoming rich, which implies huge social and economic costs. To avert this outcome, the Hevolution Foundation, a nonprofit backed by the Saudi royal family, has begun to support research focused on lengthening healthspans – the period of life spent in good health.

    explains why increasing “healthspans” to match lifespans is a moral and economic imperative.
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    Europe’s Democrats Must Forge a Will to Fight

    Wojciech Przybylski & Goran Buldioski think European leaders' most urgent security task is to nurture citizens' resolve to defend their countries.
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    Governments Are Not Startups

    Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel explain why ongoing efforts to run the state like a business are doomed to fail.

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