While next year's midterms may well end Morena’s qualified majority in Mexico's lower house, a rightward swing fueled by regional forces appears unlikely, says Guillermo Ortiz (@GroupofThirty). Instead, Mexico could become a target of @realDonaldTrump. project-syndicate.org/commen…

If a culture objects to unbridled arrogance and insists on a counternarrative of social cooperation, it is more likely to generate a check on hubris and all the dangers it can create, Richard Sherwin observes. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Argentina used to have world-class laboratories backed by its national science agency; but following @JMilei's cuts, over 10% of scientists and technicians have left for the private sector, notes Jeremy Adelman. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Early warnings, specialist staff, civil-society partnerships, and rapid escalations cost a fraction of what it does to respond after atrocities destabilize regions or displace millions, @aarif_abraham explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Mariana Mazzucato & Anna Hope Emerson explain what it takes to get the most out of industrial policies and other state interventions in markets. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Jeffrey Frankel rejects the idea that exchange-rate volatility justifies adjusting national GDPs for purchasing power parity. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Jeremy Adelman thinks Brazil's presidential election has left Donald Trump's plan for the Western Hemisphere in tatters. project-syndicate.org/commen…

If @SecRubio’s goal is to save Western civilization and maintain its dominance, international relations becomes a zero-sum game, @eliamepgr’s Loukas Tsoukalis argues. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The relationship between firm and worker, and the corresponding obligations, were intentionally severed through vertical disintegration across global supply chains, subcontracting, and labor intermediation, Jeffrey Vogt and Monika Mehta write. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The age of abundance now looks more like an aberration than a new reality. The end of this fortunate interval, notes V. Anantha Nageswaran, is narrowing the options of emerging economies and forcing them to act quickly. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Grita Anindarini argues that establishing regional endowment funds would enable just energy transitions. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Many seem to assume that AI will favor whichever government has the largest model or the most data. But the real advantage lies with governments that can retain what they learn, Christopher A. Pissarides and @WhiteshieldP's Fadi Farra argue. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act gave entrepreneurs an incentive to design platforms that could capitalize on user-generated content without having to internalize its social costs, @oliviersylvain explains. bit.ly/3URZZmW

Students locked out of higher education or left with suboptimal choices, like those currently protesting in France, deserve an explanation and, above all, support, @gabramosp writes. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Dambisa Moyo warns that markets have become so dependent on AI that a tech selloff could trigger a global recession. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Those seeking to weaken the EU’s supranational foundations are already preparing their radical schemes. Pro-European forces cannot afford to be less imaginative, determined, or prepared, @jaemmanouilidis argues. project-syndicate.org/commen…

To build a more geographically balanced economy, South Korea must pursue targeted—or “imbalanced”—investment, notes Keun Lee (@SeoulNatlUni). This lesson applies beyond South Korea. project-syndicate.org/commen…

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The model of funding public-finance oversight in developing countries through grants has started to collapse, @AFRODAD2011’s @jayznotes warns. project-syndicate.org/commen…

China's tax revenues have collapsed from 18.4% of GDP in 2012 to 12.6% in 2025, a level one would associate more with a struggling, lower-middle-income country than an aspiring superpower, note Navneeraj Sharma and @arvindsubraman. project-syndicate.org/commen…