Ricardo Hausmann urges policymakers to nuture the sense of identity and shared destiny required to sustain collective action.

Noreena Hertz sees several problems with the kind of top-down basic-income schemes proposed by tech industry leaders.

Gemma Cheng'er Deng & Jim O'Neill think the United States and its traditional allies lack a coherent strategy for dealing with emerging powers.

Mekala Krishnan, Annabel Farr and Kanmani Chockalingam estimate the level of investment needed to protect vulnerable places and show why the payoff is much larger.

Harold James points out that the continent has a history of political reinvention, especially following moments of despair.

Sami Mahroum proposes levies on the computational time consumed by AI systems in lieu of unworkable "robot taxes."

Timothy Snyder draws parallels between the US president’s act of war and the history of imperialism and fascism.

Stephen Holmes assesses a policy made possible by the destruction of mechanisms intended to discipline US presidents' power.

Carla Norrlöf thinks the Trump administration has muddied the waters in ways that will make US global leadership costlier.

Yi Fuxian shows how high-level officials were able to obscure the failure of family-planning rules.

Masyita Crystallin, Rachel Glennerster and Masyita Crystallin call on multilateral development banks to commit now to providing at-risk funding for bets on vaccines.

Antonin Bergeaud, André Loesekrug-Pietri and Jean Tirole show that the biggest barrier to the sector’s development is structural, not financial.

Desmond Lachman identifies the main risks that could drag down the US president’s favorite economic indicator.

Kilaparti Ramakrishna shows how marine-based solutions gained prominence at COP30 and why they hold the key to planetary health.

Gordon Brown shares findings from a global survey demonstrating broad support for international cooperation.

Gordon Hanson, Dani Rodrik and Rohan Sandhu observe that the types of challenges that developed and developing economies face are converging.

Hiroshi Mikitani touts public acceptance of the technology and policymakers’ “innovation-first” approach to regulating it.

Ian Buruma traces the roots of the US president’s fixation on the continent’s “civilizational decline.”

Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer and Angela Valenzuela vow to do whatever it takes to push world leaders to act, beginning at the UN conference in Madrid.

George Soros warns that, after misreading the situation in Ukraine, Russia's leader seems to know no limits.