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Another reason to be cautious about high expectations for youth protest movements is the mistaken idea that young people are necessarily on the side of liberalism and openness, notes Ian Buruma. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Odysseus had himself tied to the mast so that he would not succumb to the Sirens' beautiful song and steer toward them and his own destruction. The challenge we face with AI is similar, @rodrikdani writes. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@ilo’s next director-general must expand its worker base beyond formal employment to include informal and unpaid workers, says @UMassAmherst’s @Jayati1609. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Are cash payments to voters economic tools, vote-buying schemes, or both? For politicians, the answer seems to depend on whose party is in power, notes @UChicago’s @GregWKaplan. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@realDonaldTrump won't be on the ballot in 2028, but the @GOP will. By appointing @StephenM as his chief of staff, @realDonaldTrump is telling Republicans what their future is worth to him. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The world’s richest 0.001% already hold three times as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity. AI is poised to widen that gulf unless governments act, argues @Cornell’s @kaushikcbasu. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Whether Putin’s Russia succeeds in defeating Ukraine or not, the Kremlin will next turn its aggression against Europe, writes @Marist’s Andrew Kosenko. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@AndresVelasco cautions the winners of recent elections in Brazil and the US that voters were repudiating one person, not endorsing the other party. project-syndicate.org/commen…

East Asia's explosive economic growth did not happen automatically or by accident. It was the product of deliberate, sustained investment in the infrastructure and institutions that let cities do what they do best, @WorldBankGroup's @Paschald explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@realDonaldTrump promised that his sweeping tariffs would bring factory jobs back to America. Instead, manufacturing employment has fallen, and consumers are paying more for goods, notes @anneokrueger. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Soňa Muzikárová thinks the EU cannot regulate its way to success while its energy infrastructure falls apart. project-syndicate.org/commen…

It is hard to see the current crisis over India's voter-roll deletions being defused without the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, writes @ShashiTharoor. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@paulkrugman recently concluded that, when it comes to “weaponized interdependence,” the EU is more powerful than both the US and China. But @JFrankelEcon (@Harvard) thinks this conclusion rests on a faulty approach to comparing national GDPs. 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…

Gabriela Ramos points out that the incoming Congress has a mandate to subject the technology to stronger public oversight. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Brian Judge explains what comes next after US voters’ overwhelming rejection of data centers and the firms building them. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Peter Singer argues that authorship of academic texts, once disclosed, has no bearing on the integrity of their content. project-syndicate.org/commen…

If we want to have any future, we must not put our differences aside. We must do the opposite and focus on our real, deepest divisions and antagonisms, Slavoj Žižek writes. bit.ly/4AjfjIP

AI means very different things depending on what a society already has. In rich economies, it competes with expensive human expertise; but when introduced elsewhere, it supplies expertise that was never available, @carlbfrey explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Luigi Zingales warns US Democrats that voters who punished Trump's greed won't hesitate to oust them if they repeat his sins. project-syndicate.org/commen…