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PS Podcasts features conversations with Project Syndicate contributors – leading economists, policymakers, and researchers – on the world’s most pressing issues in economics, politics, inter...
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...
The unprecedented fiscal spending that many governments unleashed in response to the COVID-19 crisis has fueled an increasingly heated debat...
The Taliban has announced its interim government, and its all-male, often-hardline makeup seems to have confirmed many observers’ worst fear...
While elections alone don’t necessarily make a state democratic, they do offer a glimpse into the strength and legitimacy of a democracy. Wh...
After over a decade on the fringes of the global monetary system, digital currencies are increasingly being embraced by companies, governmen...
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the swiftest and most comprehensive contraction of global economic activity ever. With crises set to prolife...
Twenty years ago, the September 11 terrorist attacks invigorated America’s sense of itself as the “indispensable nation.” But its actions si...
In 1971, President Richard Nixon closed the gold window, effectively ushering in a new global monetary non-system with a single pillar: the...
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...
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, founded a century ago, has been in power for more than seven decades – and it has big plans for the future. Wh...
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares to step aside after 16 years in office, Germany, Europe, and the world are entering a new, more...
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....
Despite major challenges, India’s multicultural democracy has thrived for more than 70 years. But can it survive Prime Minister Narendra Mod...
While critics say that the European Union has stumbled from crisis to crisis for most of its existence, its defenders counter that crises ha...
Popular protests and a tanking economy seem to be weakening President Vladimir Putin’s position, if not threatening his grip on power. Yet R...
US President Joe Biden’s public-investment proposal is undoubtedly ambitious – and highly controversial. But it may also be the key to putti...
After 20 years and more than $2 trillion, the US is under growing pressure finally to withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving the country where i...
This week in Outtakes, recent guest Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health and Security, explains why borde...
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...
With the encouragement of leaders like Donald Trump, far-right extremism has gone mainstream in recent years. To mitigate the growing danger...
Ten years after a popular uprising overthrew a dictator, Egypt largely appears to be back where it started. Why were Egyptians’ democratic h...
Just as Brexit marked the end of an era, it marks the beginning of a new one. And there is plenty of reason for both the United Kingdom and...
After four years of an “America first” foreign policy, President-elect Joe Biden wants the world to know that America is back. But will Bide...
One issue links the political ructions and failures that have afflicted America in 2020: trust – or, rather, the lack thereof. Neither a COV...
With multiple producers touting promising results in late-stage trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, the end of the pandemic finally seems...
Joe Biden may have won the US election, but the vote was hardly the firm popular rebuke to Trumpism many had anticipated. What does that mea...
Today’s US election comes at a moment of such deep polarization that many are bracing for a bitter fight over the results. In this week’s sp...
Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the upcoming election has further intensified the polarization that has i...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s successor, Yoshihide Suga, has pledged to uphold his signature economic-policy program, Abenomics. What...
The US Federal Reserve has announced a major shift in its monetary-policy framework: it will no longer target an inflation rate of “around 2...
In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the world will face worsening food crises, devastating wildfires, and cor...
When COVID-19 hit the United States in March, colleges and universities around the country quickly shifted to remote learning. But, as a new...
Joe Biden has hinted that, if he wins November’s US presidential election, he will serve only one term. However unlikely that may be, his ru...
For the past week, we’ve been on VEEP watch – repeatedly checking our phones for any indication that Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic n...
For decades, globalization has been narrowing the scope of national sovereignty. Does the COVID-19 pandemic – which has highlighted, yet aga...
Just 3% of US economics PhDs were awarded to black people in 2017 – a share that has been trending downward since the mid-1990s. This week,...
For over a year, China has progressively tightened its grip on Hong Kong. Its latest move – the introduction of a new security law – may spe...
George Floyd’s fatal encounter with the police seems to have been a tipping point in the United States. It comes at time when the pandemic h...
Not even a pandemic seems to be slowing down the world’s tech giants. Companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google may emerge as the winners...
The labor market and workplace conditions have changed dramatically in recent years – often not for the better. How will the COVID-19 pandem...
The COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for dictators and democrats alike to abuse government power, spurring fears that emergency m...
When it comes to commerce, where Europe leads, others follow. The reason is simple: it’s too costly for global companies not to adopt a one-...
From the ashes of the Great Depression, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed through a raft of labor and social reforms that remade the...
COVID-19 has upended our health systems, economies, and societies, but we’ve been through this before. Yale University historian Frank Snowd...
Liberian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee launched a movement that toppled a dictatorship and ended a 14-year civil war....
“Make America Great Again” was a powerful campaign slogan in 2016, appealing in states that mattered to voters who felt that the US economy...
By focusing on practical solutions to small questions, Abhijit Banerjee helped revolutionize development economics. Now, he’s turning his fo...
Since the 1970s, Iowa has hosted the United States’ first primary contest for US presidential nominees, often with make-or-break consequence...
Will Brexit break up the United Kingdom? Historian David Edgerton says that the time has come to let go of the idea of a “British nation.” H...