Project Syndicate

By Jorge Heine BOSTON – After the euphoric Democratic National Convention in Chicago, there is little doubt that Kamala Harris’s candidacy has changed the dynamics of the 2024 US presidential race.

– Kehinde A. Togun WASHINGTON, DC – Young people have been leading large-scale protests in two of Africa’s most influential countries, Kenya and Nigeria.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – The US presidential election in November is critical for many reasons.

By Yi Fuxian MADISON, WISCONSIN – Chinese overcapacity is raising concerns worldwide.

By Binaifer Nowrojee WASHINGTON, DC – Six months ago, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s grip on power in Bangladesh appeared unbreakable.

By Debasish Roy Chowdhury HONG KONG – Politically motivated bulldozing has returned with a vengeance in India.

By Laura Alfers and Christy Braham JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON, DC – Today’s escalating climate crisis disproportionately affects the world’s two billion informal workers.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva SALZBURG – Early in this century, I was told, the United Kingdom compiled a list of the ten most important actions to take in the event of an emergency.

By Lili Fuhr and James Kerry BERLIN/ZURICH – Life on Earth would not exist without the oceans and their interconnected and fragile ecosystems, many of which we barely understand.

By Nicholas Reed Langen LONDON – One of the few commendable acts of Liz Truss’s bizarre career came in March 2022, when, as British foreign secretary, she supported the withdrawal of British judges from the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

By  M. Niaz Asadullah DHAKA – The Yemeni peace activist Tawakkol Karman once said that youth is a revolution; they cannot be stopped, they cannot be oppressed, and they cannot be silenced.

INNSBRUCK/LONDON – In 1853, under orders from President Millard Fillmore, US Navy Commodore Matthew Perry led four warships on a mission to persuade Japan to end its 200-year-old isolationist policy.

By Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – In many countries, innovation and good jobs have become increasingly concentrated in a few places.

By Renata Narita RIO DE JANEIRO – Despite robust labor regulations, Latin American countries have exceptionally high turnover rates.

By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – The Council of Europe, often criticized for being overly cautious, is flexing its muscles.

By Charles A. Kupchan WASHINGTON, DC – Kamala Harris can win the US presidency.

By Reed Galen WASHINGTON, DC – Books will be written about the last month in American politics.

By Carlos Alvarado-Quesada SAN JOSÉ – In a highly divisive presidential-election year, there is at least one point on which more than half of American voters agree: immigration is a top priority.

TURIN – US President George H.W. Bush once remarked that, “No nation on Earth has discovered a way to import the world’s goods and services while stopping foreign ideas at the border.”

By Nina L. Khrushcheva NEW YORK – “We cling to power as a flea clings to a collar,” Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, my great-grandfather, declared in 1957.