Project Syndicate

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – It is humbling when a columnist must retract his words soon after penning them.

By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS – Europe has discovered its moral Rubicon, the frontier beyond which commodification becomes intolerable.

By Sheldon Whitehouse and Hank Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – America’s courts are under siege from right-wing special interests.

By  Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – A flurry of assaults on freedom of the press in recent months has raised troubling questions about the state of India’s democracy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

By Karina Gould OTTAWA – It has been a year since the coronavirus pandemic started dominating headlines and our lives.

By Dani Rodrik Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F.

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – During Joe Biden’s long career in the US Senate, he established a record of supporting human rights as a goal of American foreign policy.

By Adair Turner LONDON – Climate-policy discussions often focus on who will pay the cost of achieving a zero-carbon economy, with a particular focus on industrial sectors such as steel and cement.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – America is two cultures in one nation.

By  Justin Vaïsse PARIS – Will negotiators from the Global South be barred from attending the United Nations climate summit (COP26) in Glasgow in November because they are not vaccinated against COVID-19?

By Sanjeev Krishna and Yolanda Augustin LONDON – Many rich countries have at times failed to provide enough personal protective equipment (PPE) for their health-care workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

By Ricardo Hausmann and José Ramon Morales-Arilla CAMBRIDGE – Imagine you are driving down a road and arrive at a junction.

By  José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Jayati Ghosh              Dear Mr.

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – In the first foreign-policy speech of his presidency, Joe Biden had a simple message for the world: “America is back.”

By  Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – There are arguably two moments in the last century when a wrecking ball was taken to Russia’s political regime.

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – Joe Biden has been president of the United States for just a few weeks, but the central elements of his approach to the world are already clear: rebuilding at home, working with allies, embracing diplomacy, participating in international institutions, and advocating for democracy.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – US President Joe Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion rescue plan to help the American economy recover from the pandemic.

NEW YORK – In celebrating the liberation from Donald Trump’s misrule, we must not forget that Trump’s presidency embodied the raw politics of US white supremacy.

By Mary Robinson DUBLIN – COVID-19 turned the world upside down in 2020.

By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala LAGOS – The development and approval of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines less than a year after the start of the pandemic is a truly remarkable achievement, offering hope that the end of this devastating crisis may be in sight.