Project Syndicate
Does Pakistan still matter to India?
India could not always afford to ignore Pakistan, which was long a source of terrorism directed at India.
Will Boeing crash shareholder value?
There is a fundamental problem with how Boeing is being run.
No barbarism without poetry
If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.
Nato is not a hegemonic burden
Why is US paying twice as much as the average Nato ally when it is geographically removed from all major conflict zones?
Indian democracy’s moment of truth
Once admired for its commitment to pluralism, India no longer stands out as a model democracy.
What fundamentalist Christians see in Trump
Now that Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, it seems fitting to address a source of perplexity that has persisted ever since he arrived on the political scene: how can the US’ fundamentalist Christians be so enthusiastic about so thoroughly un-Christian a politician?
Why China won’t fight the Houthis
The current turmoil in the Middle East is not bad news for China.
No confidence in the Fed
The aftershocks of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), while seemingly fading, are still reverberating around the world.
Mass tech layoffs: The war for talent is over
As interest rates rise and growth slows, Silicon Valley bosses have begun to reclaim power from workers by slashing perks and initiating massive layoffs.
Amongst so many global crises, the very concept of development requires rethinking
Challenges that are fundamentally transnational or global in nature are driving the biggest shifts in development policy.
India’s democracy in detention
What happens to Gandhi has important implications for India’s future.
The Post-Human Desert
A massive expansion of AI capabilities is a serious threat to those in power – including those who develop, own, and control AI. It points to nothing less than the end of capitalism as we know it.
A reality check for the renminbi
It seems that the internationalisation of the renminbi is well underway.
Trump’s indictment bodes well for democracy
In addition to boasting about his infallibility, Trump has already embraced tried and true staples of fascist rhetoric.
Xi Jinping’s Idea of World Order
While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.
AI and the Global South
Unprecedentedly powerful predictive tools will strengthen authoritarian regimes’ surveillance capacity.
