Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate

The Global South will pay for Trump’s trade war

Many developing economies will likely begin to reconsider their participation in an unequal system that no longer serves their interests.

1w ago

The end of progress?

With the return of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, perhaps we should call the current era “end of progress.”

2m ago

Project Syndicate / Rebuilding Syria after Assad

Syrians will not miss Assad, a brutal ruler who failed his people.

4m ago

Civil war in Sudan: Global capitalism and perpetual war

The situation in Sudan exposes a global economic logic that has remained obfuscated in other cases.

7m ago

The geopolitics of Olympic medals

To be sure, economic development and demographics alone are not enough to guarantee Olympic success.

8m ago

Impunity for authoritarians fuels political violence

While the attempted assassinations of Trump and Fico have caused many liberals to tone down their rhetoric, such reactions miss the point.

9m ago

We are all biomass

We all know that we are part of nature and fully dependent on it for our survival, yet this recognition does not translate into action.

9m ago

Preparing for a Future of Extreme Heat Waves

As climate change accelerates, heat waves are expected to become increasingly frequent and intense

9m ago

A long way from Comey to Watergate

President Donald J. Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey is unprecedented, as is much of what Trump has undertaken as president. Despite similarities with President Richard M. Nixon's infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” 44 years ago, during the Watergate scandal, the political situations are utterly different.

7y ago

Press freedom isn't free

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is cracking down on Turkish civil society following the failed coup in July. Beyond purging

7y ago

A false spring at the spring meetings?

Every spring, international bureaucrats flock to Washington, DC, as reliably as swallows to Capistrano, for the annual meetings of the

7y ago

Lessons from the anti-globalists

The likely victory of Emmanuel Macron in the French presidential election has elicited a global sigh of relief.

7y ago

Who is Marine Le Pen?

Ivividly remember French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's first appearance on television. It was just before the 2002 presidential

8y ago

Planning for President Le Pen

After the United Kingdom's unexpected vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump's unexpected triumph in the US

8y ago

Erdogan's Pyrrhic Victory

Turkish voters had a clear-cut choice when they cast ballots on Easter Sunday in a referendum on 18 constitutional amendments already approved by the National Assembly.

8y ago

The Dalai Lama factor in Sino-Indian relations

Relations between India and China haven't been particularly warm in recent months.

8y ago

Illiberal stagnation

Today, a quarter-century after the Cold War's end, the West and Russia are again at odds. This time, though, at least on one side, the

8y ago

The temptation of Theresa May

The three great Theresas in history are all saints. The most recent to be canonised was Mother Teresa, a tireless charity worker and controversial campaigner for the poor; the first was Teresa of Ávila, one of the Catholic Church's most dynamic and powerful personalities during the sixteenth century.

8y ago