Project Syndicate

By Masatsugu Asakawa MANILA – We live in a world assailed by crisis, with war, disease, and economic hardship taking a terrible toll on human welfare in recent years.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – The sentencing of Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition Indian National Congress, to two years in prison, and his disqualification as a lawmaker in the Lok Sabha (the lower house), has sent shockwaves through India’s political system.

By Jorge G. Castañeda and Carlos Ominami NEW YORK – Recent years have not been good ones for democracy in Latin America.

By Mark Leonard BERLIN – By all accounts, Chinese President Xi Jinping has had a successful few weeks.

By Kenneth Rogoff MILAN – The spectacle of the US Congress grilling TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on March 23 could one day be remembered as a turning point in the history of globalization.

By Beniamino Callegari and Per Espen Stoknes OSLO – An easy way to start a long, heated debate is to mention global population.

By George Soros LONDON – It is exactly one month ago that I gave a speech on the eve of the Munich Security Conference.

NEW DELHI – Since the dawn of international politics, smaller states have faced the formidable challenge of navigating great-power rivalries.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – on which nearly half of all venture-backed tech start-ups in the United States depend – is in part a rerun of a familiar story, but it’s more than that.

By Yu Jie LONDON – Precisely how far China will go in supporting Russia has been one of the most important questions of the war in Ukraine.

By  Peter Singer MELBOURNE – Could the Roman Catholic Church be ready to reconsider its prohibition of the use of contraception?

By Brian Callaci WASHINGTON, DC – In late February, the US Federal Trade Commission dropped its attempt to block Meta’s acquisition of the virtual-reality company Within.

By Philippe Legrain LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson won the December 2019 general election on the promise that he had an “oven-ready deal” to “get Brexit done.”

By Ricardo Hausmann CAMBRIDGE – In the traditional (and somewhat outdated) distinction between left and right, left-wing parties represent workers, while right-wing parties represent the owners of capital.

By Anastasia Edel BERKELEY – It has now been a year since Russia, my birthplace, invaded Ukraine.

By Sania Nishtar KARACHI – The year is 2025. A woman with diabetes living in a rural area, where there is a shortage of health-care workers, must manage her condition.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has long been overly sensitive to world opinion, partly because Modi himself craves outside approval.

By Mia Amor Mottley and Svenja Schulze BRIDGETOWN/BERLIN – We must face, and act upon, an inconvenient truth.

By Minna Salami LONDON – A recent Twitter spat between influencer Andrew Tate and climate activist Greta Thunberg epitomized the eco gender gap.

By Benigno López and Eric Parrado WASHINGTON, DC – The barriers to economic progress in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are as well-known as they are formidable.