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Amira Bensebaa
(Getty image)
Amira Bensebaa (Getty image)

Leveraging data for the public good

By Christopher Pissarides, Fadi Farra, and Amira Bensebaa LONDON – The digital age has taught businesses to see people as individuals rather than just as members of certain demographic cohorts.

China’s fiscal challenges

By Yu Yongding BEIJING – When China’s GDP growth is below target, successive governments have relied on the same tool: government spending on infrastructure investment to stimulate the economy.

The Naked Ayatollah

By  Reza Aslan RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA – The nationwide protests in Iran over women’s rights and abuses by the religious morality police have once again shone a light on the country’s ruling clerical class and the seemingly limitless powers of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The great chips war

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM – In addition to dealing with the fallout from open warfare in eastern Europe, the world is witnessing the start of a full-scale economic war between the United States and China over technology.

Pomp and populism

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – One of Queen Elizabeth II’s final acts was to accept the resignation of disgraced Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the most mendacious and incompetent of the 15 prime ministers who led the United Kingdom during her 70-year reign.

Managing the Megacrisis of 2022

EDINBURGH – At recent gatherings of G7 leaders, NATO members, and G20 foreign ministers, it was clear to everyone that the world is facing a confluence of emergencies unlike anything we have seen in decades.

Democracy under attack in the US

By George Soros NEW YORK – The United States has been a constantly evolving democracy ever since it was founded in 1776, but its survival as a democracy is now gravely endangered.

Rethinking the Global Order

By Turki bin Faisal al-Saud BAKU – Just as the world was beginning to recover from one of the biggest crises in recent decades, another one has erupted in Europe.

The promise and pitfalls of Indian foreign policy

By  Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Two episodes in the first week of June starkly illustrate both the promise of Indian foreign policy and the pitfalls it faces as a result of the country’s increasingly toxic domestic political culture.

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