Project Syndicate

By Christy Hoffman GENEVA – Black Friday has become more than a shopping spree.

By Mohamed ElBaradei VIENNA – At 82, I have lived through countless political and social upheavals, enough to become somewhat inured to history’s recurring cycles.

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – We all think, speak, and write within certain intellectual frameworks that we largely take for granted.

By Sophie Scherger BERLIN – Healthy soil is indispensable to life on Earth, sustaining nearly 60% of all living species.

By Carl Bildt NEW DELHI – In a lengthy address at the annual Valdai Discussion Club meeting this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to outline his view of the world.

By Liane Schalatek WASHINGTON, DC – So far this year, floods, heat waves, droughts, storms, and wildfires have led to thousands of deaths, threatened the health and livelihoods of millions of people, and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage – at least $41 billion by June.

By Bruce Ackerman NEW HAVEN – It is easy to exaggerate Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris in the recent US presidential contest.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – In June 2020, incursions by Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops into the fraught borderlands of India’s Ladakh region triggered bloody clashes that killed 20 Indian soldiers, plunged bilateral relations to their lowest point in decades, and led to a prolonged military standoff.

By Peter Singer SINGAPORE – In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, The New York Times reported on a clash of views between two Democratic members of Congress.

By James K. Galbraith AUSTIN – As of this writing, Donald Trump has received about 75.1 million votes in the US presidential election, and Kamala Harris about 71.8 million.

By Anders Åslund STOCKHOLM – Almost three years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the West’s financial sanctions have finally started to bite, triggering fierce infighting within the Kremlin over control of Russia’s central bank.

By  Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – During the just-concluded US election campaign, I did not follow opinion polls, pore over “evidence-based” predictions, or read “expert” analyses of the race.

By Jason Stanley NEW YORK – Like others, since late Tuesday night, my phone has been blaring with text messages asking how this could have happened (as some of my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances know, I had been fully convinced that Donald Trump would win this election handily).

By Nina L. Khrushcheva NEW YORK – Fans of The Lord of the Rings will remember the scene where King Théoden, with his refuge of Helm’s Deep poised to fall to the marauding orcs and their “reckless hate,” wonders: How did it come to this?

Bu Fatih Birol and Ajay Mathur PARIS – Solar power has been the star of the clean-energy transition, delivering major benefits for the climate, the cost of living, and energy security.

By Salome Samadashvili TBILISI – In Georgia’s 2012 election, then-President Mikheil Saakashvili’s pro-Western party was defeated by Georgian Dream, a party led by the Russian-backed oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili.

By Karen Sack WASHINGTON, DC – Roughly 40% of the world’s population inhabit coastal areas.

By  Joschka Fischer BERLIN – It would be a big mistake for the West to dismiss the recent BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit in Kazan – Russia’s unofficial “Islamic” capital – as an anti-Western sideshow of little consequence.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Vermin. Rapists. Poison in America’s blood.

By Ajay Banga, Fernando Haddad, and Marina Silva WASHINGTON, DC/CALI, COLOMBIA – With this year’s global summits on biodiversity (COP16), climate change (COP29), and desertification (COP16) fast approaching, the consequences of the climate emergency are evident everywhere.