Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud and Luis Garicano rebut the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman's recent claim that the gap with the US is a statistical mirage.

Stephen Holmes thinks the deepest fissure opening up in Donald Trump’s political base runs through the US electrical grid.

Bertrand Badré, a former managing director and CFO of the World Bank, is Chair of the Project Syndicate Advisory Board, Founder and Managing Partner of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, and the ...

In recent years, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s focus on religious identity, together with its “purification” of voter rolls, has created a more binary—and potentially volatile—political ...

Harold James sees UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s loss of political authority as symptomatic of a broader malaise.

Stephen S. Roach thinks Xi Jinping’s hierarchy of ultimatums, with Taiwan now firmly at the top, is sending mixed signals.

Daron Acemoglu identifies the flawed and dangerous assumptions about AI that are guiding the technology’s design.

Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, is the author, most recently, of Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail (Polity Press, 2026).

Johan Rockström & Inga Strümke detail the lengths to which the country has gone to transform itself into a global innovation ...

Peter G. Kirchschläger assesses Leo XIV’s first encyclical, which addresses the threats to freedom and dignity posed by AI.

Gaurav Dalmia & Chetan Aggarwal suggest how the country can leverage its relative strength to build long-term resilience.

Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.