Project Syndicate

By Jorge G. Castañeda NEW YORK – Many countries, from the United States and Uruguay to India and Indonesia, will hold elections in 2024.

By Peter Sands GENEVA – Among the most shocking images from the COVID-19 pandemic were of people gasping for air, unable to breathe, their blood oxygen so severely depleted that some died in ambulances lined up outside hospitals.

By Mohamed ElBaradei VIENNA – After COVID-19 struck in 2020, creating chaos and misery, I hoped that some silver lining would emerge from this global tragedy.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Competition is what makes markets work (when they do).

By Peter Singer MELBOURNE – Last month, I was invited to join other Princeton University academics in viewing a compilation of raw footage from GoPro cameras carried by Hamas gunmen killing civilians in Israel on October 7.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Kosenko NEW YORK – As Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to wreak havoc both regionally and globally, the Ukrainian people and their allies demonstrate remarkable determination and courage.

By Chris Patten LONDON – It may shock some Americans to learn that democratic leaders and publics in Europe and elsewhere are more concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump winning their country’s 2024 presidential election than any other world event, including crucial elections in their own countries.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Harvard’s Graham Allison recently commented that, while China “is and will be the fiercest rival a ruling power has ever faced,” the current “demonization” of the country “confuses more than it clarifies.”

By Emmanuel Macron PARIS – The ongoing war in Ukraine and the fighting in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack must not distract the world from our collective priorities: reducing our CO2 emissions, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, preserving biodiversity, and fighting poverty and inequality.

By Richard K. Sherwin NEW YORK – On March 5, 2024, the people of Colorado will vote in a “primary election” to determine which candidates can compete for the US presidency in November.

By Michael J. Boskin STANFORD – The year 2023 will be remembered for many significant economic, political, and technological developments.

By Robert Skidelsky LONDON – A little over a year ago, the San Francisco-based OpenAI released its chatbot, ChatGPT, triggering an artificial-intelligence gold rush and reigniting the age-old debate about the effects of automation on human welfare.

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM – In his annual press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear that he will be ready for a peace settlement with Ukraine only after he has achieved his goals, which have not changed since he launched his full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.

By Michael Ignatieff VIENNA – Seventy-five years ago, United Nations member states meeting in Paris adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

By Vitaly Dymarsky SAINT PETERSBURG – Kremlin insiders like to tell the following story.

By Carlos Nobre and Marielos Peña-Claros SÃO PAULO/WAGENINGEN – This year has been the warmest on record, with climate change causing more frequent and intense heatwaves, wildfires, floods, and droughts.

By Carlos Nobre and Marielos Peña-Claros SÃO PAULO/WAGENINGEN – This year has been the warmest on record, with climate change causing more frequent and intense heatwaves, wildfires, floods, and droughts.

By Nikki Reisch WASHINGTON, DC – Amid record heatwaves, intensifying and costly extreme weather events, and increasingly dire warnings that climate change is literally killing us, calls to abandon fossil fuels grow louder.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – The United States has charged Indian national Nikhil Gupta, a 52-year-old narcotics and weapons trader, for plotting to murder a prominent Sikh separatist, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a US citizen, in New York City.

By Marta Schaaf and Kristine Beckerle NEW YORK – To avert catastrophic climate change, an active and empowered civil society is necessary.