Stephen S. Roach sees a lack of progress on major issues as a reflection of the US president’s belief that optics are power.

Murray Hunt urges Andy Burnham to use the UK's pending Hillsborough Law to push back against nationalist narratives.

Harris Eyre, Lenny Mendonca and Remington Tonar make the case that policymakers should bet big on human cognitive capacity, regardless of AI’s future.

Ana Palacio points out that fossil fuels cannot be replaced immediately, nor can they be replaced only with electrons.

Diego Hernandez Diaz, Luciano Di Fiori and Tiago Devesa consider how countries, especially fiscally constrained emerging economies, can build “response capacity.”

Hippolyte Fofack explains why the Economic Community of West African States needs fiscal federalism before monetary integration.

Alberto Alemanno explains how a new association agreement between the two US-dependent economies could work.

Gordon Brown & John Sexton tout a new leadership program that will help counter the secular dogmatism dividing societies.

Mohamed A. El-Erian thinks the industry will be transformed by new technologies and the rise of zero-sum economic statecraft.

Daron Acemoglu offers a novel explanation for why OpenAI and Anthropic’s most advanced models have been going rogue.

Mariana Mazzucato explains how state lending and investment bodies can be empowered to shape markets for the common good.

Alberto Alemanno explains how a new association agreement between the two US-dependent economies could work.

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Mohamed A. El-Erian thinks the industry will be transformed by new technologies and the rise of zero-sum economic statecraft.

Carolina Alves warns that empirical research in economics is displacing investigation of underlying causes.

Jeffrey Frankel argues that US politics is broken not because of inequality, but because people believe different facts.

Sławomir Sierakowski emphasizes how many of those appealing to nativism and xenophobia are guilty of rank hypocrisy.

Harold James warns that the US and China have, for different reasons, embraced a dangerous zero-sum logic.

Joschka Fischer fears that the victory of the far-right AfD in Saxony-Anhalt could augur a nightmare scenario for Europe.

Martín Abeles warns that financial dependence and geopolitical alignment could become intertwined in the region.

Bård Harstad argues that incorporating deforestation-linked tariffs could lead to more conservation and more trade.

Carl Bildt worries that recent political developments and rising ethno-nationalist tensions could prove destabilizing.

Anne O. Krueger warns that letting politicians pick corporate winners will make America poorer and ultimately less secure.

Yanis Varoufakis sees the technology converting markets into fiefs and profits into rents, ending capitalism as we know it.

Mark-Alexandre Doumba points out that development depends on building indigenous capacity, not mere access to imported innovations.

Ulrike Malmendier warns that the country is trapped by its own success and urges policymakers to remove barriers to innovation.

S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang say that any US–China deal on the technology must be able to distinguish accidents from deliberate attacks.

Zaki Laïdi fears that upcoming elections in major countries could become referenda on liberal democracy itself.

Jan-Werner Mueller explains how—and how not—to interpret the far right’s recent victories in state elections.

Michael Ignatieff wonders if Canada, Europe, and others can keep the modern West's defining ideal alive.

Steve Tsang warns that the US fails to grasp the scope of China’s challenge to its international leadership at its peril.

Véronique Chabourine proposes “net interdependence assessments” as a way to cultivate EU partnerships that benefit both parties.

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Pedro Abramovay & Julia Sakr-Tierney thinks the weakening distinction between war and peace will accelerate the decline of US hegemony.