Race and the road to a new American internationalism. | Continue reading
The United States must invest concretely in the well-being of developing nations. | Continue reading
Historic ruptures often generate and accelerate new global links. | Continue reading
Francis seeks forgiveness for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. | Continue reading
COVID-19 variants and the peril of vaccine inequity. | Continue reading
As the recent era of interventionist U.S. state building draws to a close, it is time to acknowledge it was flawed not only in execution, but also in conception. Washington's obsession with weak states was more of a mania than a sound strategic doctrine. | Continue reading
In the “new” capitalism, and especially in the United States, an increasing percentage of people are rich in terms of both labor and capital incomes. | Continue reading
Cai Xia, one of the CCP's fiercest critics, chronicles her political awakening for the first time. | Continue reading
Big Tech threatens democracy. Few have considered a practical solution: taking away the platforms’ role as gatekeepers of content. | Continue reading
A new method of peering into the future would allow U.S. policymakers to make shrewd bets about tomorrow, today. | Continue reading
How the rest of the world tamed runaway home prices | Continue reading
Amid the pandemic, Beijing is exporting a dangerous vision of public health with Chinese characteristics. | Continue reading
Beijing is already countering Washington’s policy. | Continue reading
The problems with American politics today stem from the basic design of U.S. political institutions, exacerbated by increasingly hostile polarization. Unfortunately, absent some sort of major external shock, the decay is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. | Continue reading
Global inequality continues to shrink as Asian incomes rise and the Western middle class struggles. | Continue reading
Growing numbers of people no longer find religion a necessary source of support and meaning in their lives. | Continue reading
When it comes to some of the great questions of global power politics today, Hollywood has become remarkably timid. | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic will instigate a massive economic contraction. This situation should be called a “depression”—a pandemic depression. | Continue reading
Global cooperation on vaccine allocation would be the most efficient way to disrupt the spread of the virus | Continue reading
Pandemics are not arbitrary calamities, but instead probabilistic events made more likely by human agency. This means that averting future pandemics requires a fundamental restructuring of the global economy and the current way of life, which rests upon the accelerating consumpti … | Continue reading
A number of countries—China and Russia, in particular—are turning corruption into a weapon on the global stage. | Continue reading
When Putin’s rhetoric meets Trump’s populism | Continue reading
A behind-the-scenes look at how the United States' Cold-War Strategy of election meddling has evolved in the twenty-first century. | Continue reading
China made headlines by leveraging its surveillance technology for contact tracing in response to COVID-19. And yet the country’s alleged data advantage is hugely overblown. | Continue reading
Countries fail the same way businesses do, gradually and then suddenly. | Continue reading
An insular political culture failed the test of the pandemic. | Continue reading
The strategic choices that the United States and China make will shape the contours of the emerging global order. | Continue reading
What is different about the coronavirus pandemic? | Continue reading
Can endless spending prevent economic calamity? | Continue reading
COVID-19 is far from gone, but it is not too soon to reach a verdict on the world’s collective preparation—for this outbreak and the next. | Continue reading
Herd immunity is the only realistic option—the question is how to get there safely. | Continue reading
Democracies must rival China in using digital technologies to fight pandemics. | Continue reading
A pandemic and a price war have together brought energy markets to a crisis | Continue reading
If Xi continues on his current trajectory, eroding the foundations of China’s economic and political power and monopolizing responsibility and control, he will expose the CCP to cataclysmic change. | Continue reading
Independent expertise always dies first when democracy recedes. | Continue reading
China is maneuvering for international leadership as the United States falters. | Continue reading
The world could be witnessing a fundamental shift in the very nature of the global economy. | Continue reading
Taiwan’s initial success against the novel coronavirus is a model for the rest of the world. | Continue reading
What the United States should learn from its peers. | Continue reading
Deaths from drug overdose, alcohol, and suicide are spiraling in the United States. Do these "deaths of despair" form a uniquely American crisis or will they spread to other wealthy countries? | Continue reading
Two new books inquire whether economists are doing more harm than good to U.S. society. | Continue reading
New technologies were supposed to open societies and empower individuals. Instead, they've given despots the upper hand. | Continue reading
The only way to save capitalism is to return to the stakeholder model we discovered, and then forgot, decades ago. | Continue reading
Kleptocracy and corruption are as widespread as they are well-hidden—and their social, economic, and political costs are immense. | Continue reading
Capitalism already rules the world, but the contest between its two variants will shape the future of the global economy. | Continue reading
Engagement with a rising China has been far more successful than generally recognized, and it continues to be the best path forward in an age of great-power competition. | Continue reading
Without a magic potion for economic growth, a developing country should try to raise living standards with the resources it already has. | Continue reading
Thirty years ago this month, the opening of the Berlin Wall ushered in the last great diplomatic struggle of the Cold War. | Continue reading