Project Syndicate

VIENNA – Thirty years ago, in a Ukrainian churchyard where my Russian ancestors are buried, I knelt beside a very old woman leaning on a stick, her hair covered in a black kerchief.

NEW YORK – Artificial intelligence has captured the imagination of corporate leaders eager to implement new tech solutions in their industries.

By Jorge G. Castañeda MEXICO CITY – On January 23, 1958, a group of Venezuelan military officers overthrew the brutal dictator Marcos Pérez Jimenez, who had ruled for six years – longer than he deserved – thanks to an oil bonanza.

By Isabella M. Weber, Jayati Ghosh, and Sudeep Jain BOSTON – Of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030, eliminating hunger used to be seen as the most feasible.

By Savio Carvalho AMSTERDAM – Ever since Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to office in 2023 and told the world that Brazil is “back on the world stage,” the government has endeavored to establish itself as a global climate leader.

By Enrique Krauze MEXICO CITY – Mexico has just inaugurated a new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to hold the post.

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – One year ago, Hamas killed some 1,200 people – overwhelmingly civilians – in Israel and took more than 250 hostage.

By Mette Frederiksen and Mia Amor Mottley NEW YORK – Around the world, we are witnessing the devastating effects of changing temperatures.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – This is not strictly a review of Sergey Radchenko’s recent book, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power.

By Shania Scotland ROSEAU, DOMINICA – For most people, the idea of suddenly losing everything – their home, their possessions, and even their family members and friends – is unthinkable.

By Laurence Tubiana and Ana Toni NEW YORK – It has been nearly ten years since countries came together in Paris and agreed finally to get serious about averting a climate disaster.

By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS – When the euro crisis was young, some of us became convinced that a massive public green investment program was necessary to save Europe from economic stagnation and from the ultra-right that would emerge as stagnation’s sole beneficiary.

By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – As many as 500 million children worldwide are either trapped in conflict zones or displaced by war and climate change, putting their right to an education at grave risk.

By Chris Patten LONDON – Since the golden age of Athenian democracy, freedom of speech has been viewed as a defining feature of open societies, even as it remains under constant attack.

By Marina Zucker-Marques and Kevin P. Gallagher BOSTON – It is now conventional wisdom that global capital flows to the developing world are pro-cyclical, increasing when advanced economies ease monetary policy and retreating when their interest rates rise.

By Jess Ayers and Helen Mountford LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO – Climate shocks – from heat waves to droughts, floods to wildfires – often hit women the hardest.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Kevin P. Gallagher, Martín Guzmán, and Marilou Uy NEW YORK – A group of 22 financially distressed countries, including Pakistan and Ukraine, has become the largest source of net revenue to the International Monetary Fund in recent years, with payments exceeding the Fund’s operating costs.

By Rana Hendy and Lobna Shaheen CAIRO – Egypt, renowned for its vibrant culture and rich history, has fallen on hard times, grappling with both a faltering economy and a deteriorating health system.

By Daniel Gros MILAN – According to the International Energy Agency, tripling renewable capacity by 2030, a goal set at last year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, is now feasible, owing to dramatic cost reductions in clean-energy technologies.

By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – I wrote a speculative article in 2000 on what I called “the political trilemma of the world economy.”