Trouble over Taiwan | Bonnie Glaser
In the Sino-American great-power drama, Taiwan has taken center stage, as China has ramped up pressure on the island. How much danger is Tai...
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Debt Wars | Barry Eichengreen
The unprecedented fiscal spending that many governments unleashed in response to the COVID-19 crisis has fueled an increasingly heated debat...
America’s Afghan Debacle | Annie Pforzheimer
The Taliban has announced its interim government, and its all-male, often-hardline makeup seems to have confirmed many observers’ worst fear...
Voting in a Time of Democratic Erosion | Francesca Binda
While elections alone don’t necessarily make a state democratic, they do offer a glimpse into the strength and legitimacy of a democracy. Wh...
Is Crypto Going Mainstream? | Sheila Warren
After over a decade on the fringes of the global monetary system, digital currencies are increasingly being embraced by companies, governmen...
Economic Crisis in the Anthropocene | Adam Tooze
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the swiftest and most comprehensive contraction of global economic activity ever. With crises set to prolife...
The End of the Indispensable Nation | Stephen Wertheim
Twenty years ago, the September 11 terrorist attacks invigorated America’s sense of itself as the “indispensable nation.” But its actions si...
Toward Bretton Woods 2.0? | Harold James & Paola Subacchi
In 1971, President Richard Nixon closed the gold window, effectively ushering in a new global monetary non-system with a single pillar: the...
The US Economy’s Great Adjustment | Betsey Stevenson
With many low-paying jobs going unfilled, it seems that the COVID-19 crisis has forced a much-needed adjustment in a labor market where work...
Is It Time to Cancel the Olympics? | Jules Boykoff
Even when the world isn’t gripped by a pandemic, staging the Olympic Games can create serious problems for local populations. So, why do cit...
The Communist Party of China at 100 | Rana Mitter
The Communist Party of China, founded a century ago, has been in power for more than seven decades – and it has big plans for the future. Wh...
Merkel’s Complicated Legacy | Constanze Stelzenmüller
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares to step aside after 16 years in office, Germany, Europe, and the world are entering a new, more...
Is the US Ready for War? | Michèle Flournoy
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been the world’s only superpower – a status ensured by the country’s powerful military....
Is India’s Democracy Dying? | Milan Vaishnav
Despite major challenges, India’s multicultural democracy has thrived for more than 70 years. But can it survive Prime Minister Narendra Mod...
Special Edition: Will COVID-19 Bring Europe “Ever Closer”? | Niels Thygesen
While critics say that the European Union has stumbled from crisis to crisis for most of its existence, its defenders counter that crises ha...
Russia’s Not So Strongman | Timothy M. Frye
Popular protests and a tanking economy seem to be weakening President Vladimir Putin’s position, if not threatening his grip on power. Yet R...
Will the American Jobs Plan Remake the US Economy? | James K. Galbraith
US President Joe Biden’s public-investment proposal is undoubtedly ambitious – and highly controversial. But it may also be the key to putti...
The Return of the Taliban | Ashley Jackson
After 20 years and more than $2 trillion, the US is under growing pressure finally to withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving the country where i...
Outtakes: Do Travel Bans Work? | Jennifer Nuzzo
This week in Outtakes, recent guest Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health and Security, explains why borde...
Stopping the Next Pandemic | Jennifer Nuzzo
Even if the world does manage to end the COVID-19 pandemic, we can’t simply breathe a sigh of relief and return to business as usual. With t...