Struggle for Technology Sovereignty in Europe
Back when states regularly used armed forces to compel others into compliance or dependence, sovereignty was primarily a geographic and military concept. But the...
Rural Women Can Drive Green Recoveries
By now, most countries in Asia and the Pacific have proposed some sort of post-pandemic recovery package. Many include investments in sustainability, which the...
Green Shoots of COVID Solidarity
In a recent letter to her G20 colleagues, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen argued that a truly global COVID-19 vaccination program “is...
The COVID Bubble
The US economy’s K-shaped recovery is underway. Those with stable full-time jobs, benefits, and a financial cushion are faring well as stock markets climb...
Saving Journalism from Big Tech
It is easy to forget that for a long time — long before Google and Facebook went head-to-head with the Australian government last month...
Fiscal Follies in COVID recovery
When COVID-19 went global about a year ago, the memory of the 2008 global financial crisis was still fresh, and policymakers pulled every lever...
Bitcoin: what goes up must come down
On 8 February, Elon Musk’s electric-car firm Tesla announced that it had invested $1.5 billion of its cash reserves in Bitcoin back in January....
An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation
Dear Mr. President,
The world has welcomed your election and commitment to restore diplomatic engagement with the international community to the center of US foreign...
Silent revolution in economic policy
Something extraordinary has happened to macroeconomic policymaking. Partly owing to the impact of COVID-19, the old orthodoxy has morphed into a new one –...
Saving Local News
The COVID-19 crisis has confirmed, yet again, the importance of broad access to clear, reliable, and accurate information. Throughout the pandemic, people all over...
