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[Cass R. Sunstein] We are living in historic times. Or are we?

ColumnistsJun 17, 2019

If we are living through historic events, would we know? In 1965, Arthur Danto, a philosopher at Columbia University, argued that it is impossible to tell, when you’re in the midst of things, whethe...
[Leonid Bershidsky] Russia after Vladimir Putin

ColumnistsJun 6, 2019

Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has, outwardly at least, been one of the world’s most stable and predictable regimes -- an assertive authoritarian government propped u...
[Mac Margolis] Survival tips for Latin American leftist leaders

ColumnistsJun 4, 2019

Latin America’s left-wingers are in a rut. Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro presides over a collapsing economy behind bayonets. An Ecuadoran court has ordered the arrest of former President Rafael Correa, ...
[Francis Wilkinson] Democrats must win the war for truth

ColumnistsJun 3, 2019

Poor old Robert Mueller. “Mr. Mueller seemed to expect that the system would work as it had in the past,” noted a news analysis last week in the New York Times. Former special counsel Mueller scrupu...
[Karl W. Smith] How this trade war will remake the world

ColumnistsMay 27, 2019

US President Donald Trump has long said the goal of his trade policy is simply to get better deals for Americans. But as the trade war intensifies, it seems increasingly likely that his policies will...
[Adam Minter] China’s brightest are the trade war’s latest casualties

ColumnistsMay 26, 2019

It’s college graduation season in China and the timing couldn’t be much worse for the record-breaking 8.34 million students emerging from university this year. A slowing economy, hobbled further by t...
[Adam Minter] China’s trade warriors can’t hit Hollywood

ColumnistsMay 20, 2019

China may want to stand tough against Donald Trump’s trade threats. It’s going to have a hard time retaliating, though, and not only because it doesn’t import enough goods to match the US president t...
[James Stavridis] National security risks are rising with sea levels

ColumnistsMay 15, 2019

I spent much of my life in the US Navy, including nearly 11 years on the deep ocean day-to-day, out of sight of land. This really drove home the fact that oceans cover 70 percent of the earth’s surfa...
[Hal Brands] Are Americans turning isolationist?

ColumnistsMay 13, 2019

Public attitudes toward US foreign policy are a mess of ambiguities and seeming contradictions. Americans don’t particularly like Donald Trump’s policies, but they share some of his ambivalence about...
[Noah Smith] Politics moves faster than economists gather data

ColumnistsMay 6, 2019

The dream of evidence-based policy is that as data and analysis get better and better, policymakers will be able to make informed decisions in real time. Instead of relying on judgment or on long-che...
[Leonid Bershidsky] Huawei is being held to an impossible standard

ColumnistsMay 2, 2019

The Bloomberg report of persistent vulnerabilities found in Huawei telecommunications equipment by major telecom operator Vodafone highlights the Chinese vendor’s current problem: While its competito...
[Daniel Moss] Does Indonesia need a new capital?

ColumnistsMay 2, 2019

Even as he awaits official confirmation of his election to a second term, Indonesian President Joko Widodo appears to be thinking about his legacy. He’s proposing a $33 billion plan to relocate the c...
[Anjani Trivedi] China could win from tech Cold War

ColumnistsMay 1, 2019

China’s growing technological prowess in areas such as artificial intelligence is making Washington very nervous. US efforts to fight back, though, could make the problem worse. In US policy circles...
WeWork files confidentially to hold initial public offering

MarketsApr 30, 2019

WeWork, the world’s biggest co-working company, is planning to go public, joining a wave of highly valued technology startups moving to the U.S. markets. The New York-based company said Monday it fi...
[Julian Lee] Dirty Russian oil has made fragile market worse

ColumnistsApr 29, 2019

President Donald Trump wants to strangle the Iranian economy and keep gas prices low for American drivers. The discovery that Russia has been exporting contaminated crude oil means any hopes that he ...