Project Syndicate
Down on the Biden economy
Why do voters give Biden’s economy a lousy 36 percent approval rating?
Inequality and democracy
Should we be surprised that so many people view the growing concentration of wealth with suspicion, or that they believe the system is rigged?
Israel’s moment of reckoning is long overdue
For decades, Israel has tried to manage the conflict, only to be managed by it.
The debt supercycle comes to China
Could the debt woes of Country Garden, the behemoth Chinese real-estate developer now facing billions of dollars in losses, augur the cycle’s next turn?
The real cost of de-dollarisation
The dollar’s uncontested reign is coming to an end, with far-reaching global economic consequences.
Good governance is a bad idea
The good governance agenda has lost its label, but it lives on, and it has become an existential threat.
A way to finance childhood growth
Too poor to affect grain prices in global markets, the chronically hungry are economically invisible.
Winning the fight for women’s land rights
While the world enjoys the fruits of their labour, they often have no say or control over the land they work.
The US and India’s non-aligned alliance
Modi's recent visit to Washington appears to mark a new chapter in the India-US relationship.
Understanding Biden’s big bet on India
The unprecedented lovefest between India and the United States has been striking and, frankly, puzzling.
Without whistleblowers, the West is lost
We need people like Assange to force such reckonings – to make us see “those in the darkness.”
The Modi Decade
Dissent is framed as disloyalty, with criticism of government policies labeled “anti-national.”
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.
