Project Syndicate

Analysts worried that @realDonaldTrump’s tariffs would provoke retaliation and reduce global trade. But most countries have resisted the urge to retaliate, limiting the harm that might otherwise have been done, writes @anneokrueger. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Paschal Donohoe sees three big priorities that the region’s policymakers and urban planners should address. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Fundamentals can be overlooked for only so long. For those too young to remember the dot-com crash of the early 2000s, the late-1990s investment frenzy offers important lessons for this moment, @UKLabour MP @ChiOnwurah explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Mekala Krishnan, Sylvain Johansson and Kanmani Chockalingam share new research demonstrating a need for innovation in how projects are delivered and financed. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Shashi Tharoor digs into the voter-roll controversy that is fueling demonstrations across the country. project-syndicate.org/commen…

If we start substituting informed opinions for AI-generated answers, the engine that has pushed society forward for centuries will stall, @macfound's @jpalfrey warns. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Peter Thomson sees a rare opening to push marine solutions in discussions about reducing emissions and building resilience. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@AEI's Desmond Lachman urges the @ecb to waive its rules and pursue large-scale French bond purchases on the secondary market. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The Chinese "platform state" creates value not by directly producing everything, but by facilitating interactions and transactions among different parts of the ecosystem, explains @AngelaZhangHK. bit.ly/4Ad9iOn

Reed Galen identifies the lessons that the party should—and should not—take from its overwhelming midterm success. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Too often, Europe’s social model intervenes too late—after workers have lost their jobs and their skills have become obsolete. Instead of playing defense, we should improve our offense, advises @AXA CEO @thomasbuberl. bit.ly/4exbS91

“Mainstream” economics is now a swirling mass of ad hoc ideas and methods, all revolving around an empty core, James K. Galbraith argues. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The tech brotherhood has no patience for social contracts that bind not just the ruled to the ruler but also the ruler to the ruled. Its notion of power is unilateral and top-down, Katharina Pistor explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…

For Polish President @NawrockiKn and his goons, the recent hooliganism in and around the Constitutional Tribunal was simply politics by other means, Sławomir Sierakowski writes. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Big Tech did not kill private life. It found a culture already inclined to publicness and built a business on it, @tiffanyjenkins explains. bit.ly/4zmoFmN

We should have learned by now that good politics depends not so much on good institutions as on the moral sentiments supporting them, @DeirdreMcClosk writes. project-syndicate.org/commen…

While US conservatives must defend the rights of racists, bigots, and antisemites to express their appalling views, they should not enter into formal or informal coalitions with them, @MichaelRStrain writes. project-syndicate.org/commen…

European far-right parties may differ from one another on many issues. But the ones where they converge tell us everything we need to know about where the continent may be headed, @markhleonard observes. project-syndicate.org/commen…

China offers Iran, Russia, and other sanctioned states a way to circumvent US sanctions and continue doing business, albeit at an elevated cost. This is not de-dollarization, but a defanging of the greenback, argues @hofunghung of @JohnsHopkins. project-syndicate.org/commen…

China's tech and export industries may be booming, but they aren't creating nearly enough jobs to offset the collapse of its real-estate sector. That doesn't necessarily mean its geopolitical ambitions are doomed, writes @krogoff. project-syndicate.org/commen…