If your outrage depends on who's holding the gun rather than who's under it, you're not practicing human rights. You are involved in politics while claiming to support human rights.

The uprising is a textbook liberation movement, but supporting it could serve Israeli interests – and this doesn't fit the oppressor-oppressed binary

The Persistence of Misconception about Yugoslav Socialism

When moral purity eclipses intellectual courage

The reason for the disproportionate attention is simply a matter of utility: activism for the Gaza war advances political objectives; activism for the Sudan conflict does not.

How Woke Conformism Threatens Academic Freedom, Excellence, and Integrity

I stood in Tel Aviv on the eve of war and returned to a Europe unable to speak. What I found was not debate, but the quiet collapse of courage.

If my classmates knew what it was like to grow up under a radical Islamic regime, they would understand why I can't join them in a pro-Hamas demonstration

We examine the contribution of institutional integration to a country’s institutional capacity. To this end, we examine the effects of remaining outside of the European integration process for 28 Ukra...

This paper examines whether major political institutional disruptions produce temporary shocks or structural breaks in long-term development. Using the 1979 Iranian Revolution as a natural experiment,...

We investigate the long-term impact of civil war on subnational economic growth across 78 regions in five former Yugoslav republics from 1950 to 2015. Leveraging the outbreak of ethnic tensions and th...

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying

Satirical petition from Denmark, which owns Greenland, racks up 200,000 signatures as Trump eyes Arctic island

A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president.

Conservative economist says singular focus on deregulation, unfettered trade failed to deliver for American households.

Silvio Berlusconi invented the modern oligarchy. Musk is expanding it.

Abstract. We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the United States using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ f

Der argentinische Präsident Javier Milei wird für seinen Reformkurs von Anhängern verehrt und von Gegnern gehasst. In Deutschland polarisierte Christian Lindner mit seiner Aussage, man könne von ihm l...

The president-elect claims the crossing is controlled by China and rips off American consumers

US swing state voters were told to sign petition ‘in support of the constitution’ to get awards

The economics of buying new territory

It all seems like political theatre of the absurd – but the disrupter-in-chief has a habit of making the unthinkable inevitable

In 1947, Gorizia was abruptly split between Italy and Slovenia. In 2025, the two towns will reunite as the first transnational European Capital of Culture.

Georgia is sliding into autocratic rule. Sanctions are needed.

The cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza is estimated at around $18.5 billion according to a new report released today by the World Bank and the United Nations, with financial support of ...

U.S. life expectancy has declined to 76.4 years, the shortest it’s been in nearly two decades, according to December data from the CDC. Two experts from Harvard Chan School—Dean Michelle Williams and ...

Daron Acemoglu is not surprised that so many voters ignored warnings about the threat Donald Trump poses to US institutions.

While at war, Israel is facing a constitutional crisis

Are American pathologies the necessary price of economic dynamism?

This paper examines the potential impact of institutional shocks on long-term development of property rights and on institutions regulating contractin…

Purging career civil servants will not make government more democratic.