Project Syndicate

How Corruption Fuels Climate Change

2017-03-25

Last year marked the first time in millions of years that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million

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America’s Confidence Economy

2017-03-20

The surge in business and consumer sentiment reflects an assumption that is deeply rooted in the American psyche

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Trump’s Imaginary Enemy

2017-03-19

Donald Trump’s administration is posturing for a stricter approach to China

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How Fake News Wins

2017-03-09

In response to the wave of fake news that inundated the recent presidential election campaign in the United States

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How Trump is Testing Democracy

2017-02-27

Trump was elected largely for one reason: a substantial share of US voters were fed up with the state of the economy and the politicians who had overseen it

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ASEAN and the Rohingya Crisis

2017-02-07

The United Nations considers the stateless Rohingya to be among the world’s most persecuted minorities

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Trump’s Chaos Theory of Government

2017-02-07

Trump’s transition was initially reassuring but all hell broke loose as Trump and Bannon began to implement their project in earnest

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Playing with Economic Matches

2017-02-01

The International Monetary Fund reported disappointing global GDP growth

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Dark Days for Children

2017-01-31

Images of dead, injured, and distraught young children filled the media on an almost daily basis

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The Middle East’s Next Moment of Reckoning

2017-01-21

State-led reforms will not be enough to alleviate public discontent in the region

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The New Year and the New Populism

2017-01-17

The word “populism” was everywhere in 2016

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The Next World Order

2017-01-11

We have been trying to fit the round pegs of twenty-first-century global power into the square holes of post-World War II institutions

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Democracy’s Broken Promises

2017-01-06

It’s facile to blame the politics of post-truth practiced by populists. Lies and exaggerations would not work if current democratic practice were without problems

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The Next Migrant Wave

2016-12-30

Climate change will be one of many factors fueling future migration waves

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A New Deal for Refugees

2016-12-11

Even asylum is inadequate to enable refugees to rebuild their lives

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The Complexity of Inequality

2016-12-11

Inequality remains poorly defined, its effects highly variable, and its causes hotly debated

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Donald Trump’s Choices in the Middle East

2016-11-23

Trump is a businessman, not a statesman, he thinks in terms of immediate profits and losses

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Masters of War in Syria and Iraq

2016-10-30

When the bloody conflict finally ends in Syria, there will be no victory parades, no moment of national catharsis

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How Inequality Found a Political Voice

2016-10-30

Political leaders often speak of growth patterns that unfairly distribute the benefits of growth; but then they do relatively little about it when they are in power

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Pensioners and Populism

2016-10-29

The rise of protectionism and anti-immigrant sentiment in Britain, America, and Europe is widely believed to reflect stagnant incomes, widening inequality, structural unemployment, and even excessive monetary easing

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Education Innovation in the Middle East

2016-10-27

We now confront an education crisis that threatens to leave a lost generation of young people without any hope for a better future

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Managing Compromise in the Middle East

2016-10-23

The international community undoubtedly has a central role to play in supporting social and economic reform in the middle east

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