Tragedy Unfolding in the Poorest Countries
Indermit Gill and M. Ayhan Kose
The poorest countries are in desperate straits, and the rest of the world is looking the other way. Doing...
Democracy Must Prevail in the Sahel
By Josep Borrell
Some events are more memorable than others and serve as landmarks for a term in office. I will always remember attending a...
Importance of First Hundred Days in Office
After years of anxiety about democratic backsliding, the next few months will tell us a lot about the state of popular government around the...
A new OPEC for critical minerals
We know that the future will be powered by metals, but it remains to be seen if those metals will be fenced in by...
Hollywood Writers’ AI Fight Is Everyone’s Fight
Artificial intelligence is big business’s new flavor of the month. Companies are rushing to showcase how they will be using new generative AI models,...
AI’s Pugwash Moment
Almost exactly 66 years ago, 22 preeminent scientists from ten countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, gathered in Pugwash, in the...
America’s Higher-Education Financing Challenge
Some 44 million Americans currently owe $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, and more than seven million of them were in default prior to...
A Humbling Economy for Economists
Given all the uncertainty in the world economy today, we have been reminded that for all the authority economics commands, it is still a...
After Affirmative Action
The US Supreme Court’s decision disallowing explicitly race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions has intensified debates about privilege and social mobility in the United...
Western Distraction from Climate Action
It should be common knowledge by now that climate change is a complex problem with outsize consequences for the Global South. By 2030, most...