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Opinion Has It

Opinion Has It by Project Syndicate features conversations with leading economists, policymakers, authors, and researchers on the world’s most pressing issues. Tune in for biweekly analyses and insigh... Read more

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Repairing America’s Broken Social Compact | Danielle Allen

Repairing America’s Broken Social Compact | Danielle Allen

One issue links the political ructions and failures that have afflicted America in 2020: trust – or, rather, the lack th... Read more

15 Dec 2020

30mins

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Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel Measures the GOP’s Tax Plan

Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel Measures the GOP’s Tax Plan

Jeffrey Frankel, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a former member of President Bill ... Read more

12 Dec 2017

23mins

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Atul Gawande Asks Katherine Semrau How We Can Improve Maternal and Newborn Health

Atul Gawande Asks Katherine Semrau How We Can Improve Maternal and Newborn Health

Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande interviews Katherine Semrau, an epidemiologist who leads the Better Birth program at Ari... Read more

13 Feb 2018

29mins

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Kent Harrington on Trump’s Intelligence Antipathy

Kent Harrington on Trump’s Intelligence Antipathy

Throughout American history, “intelligence” has been a valuable commodity in politics and war, helping nearly every pres... Read more

5 Jun 2018

27mins

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Minxin Pei on the Rise of Emperor Xi

Minxin Pei on the Rise of Emperor Xi

In March, China’s National People’s Congress rubber-stamped the elimination of presidential term limits, clearing the wa... Read more

10 Apr 2018

27mins

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Ten Years After the Crisis: An Economic Parley

Ten Years After the Crisis: An Economic Parley

Ten years ago, asset prices were in free fall, credit markets had seized up, and millions of people were losing their ho... Read more

25 Sep 2018

51mins

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Jim O'Neill on the Evolution of Global Governance

Jim O'Neill on the Evolution of Global Governance

The Western-led international order is in disarray, with this year’s chaotic G7 summit being an obvious case in point. B... Read more

17 Jul 2018

24mins

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Measuring Inequality | Angus Deaton & Anne Case

Measuring Inequality | Angus Deaton & Anne Case

When it comes to tackling the challenges of inequality, are we asking the right questions? Or, for that matter, measurin... Read more

12 Feb 2019

29mins

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PS Voice: Unpacking Brexit, with Shashi Tharoor

PS Voice: Unpacking Brexit, with Shashi Tharoor

Former UN Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor, an MP for the Indian National Congress, unpacks Brexit. See acast.com/... Read more

26 Jan 2017

20mins

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Mark Leonard on Italy and the Future of Europe

Mark Leonard on Italy and the Future of Europe

Following the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote and the rise of populists in Central Europe, does the emergence of a Euroskep... Read more

19 Jun 2018

27mins

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Revisiting The End Of The Cold War | John Lewis Gaddis

Revisiting The End Of The Cold War | John Lewis Gaddis

Thirty years ago this week, the world watched in awe as thousands brought down the Berlin Wall, marking the beginning of... Read more

5 Nov 2019

27mins

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PS Voice: Paola Subacchi on Financial Stability

PS Voice: Paola Subacchi on Financial Stability

Paola Subacchi, Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, discusses financial stability, China, Brexit, and Italy with PS... Read more

5 Oct 2017

21mins

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Nina Khrushcheva on Russia in 2018 and Beyond

Nina Khrushcheva on Russia in 2018 and Beyond

With President Vladimir Putin the only viable candidate in the presidential election in March, a fourth term is all but ... Read more

30 Jan 2018

25mins

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Facing Up to Facebook | Roger McNamee

Facing Up to Facebook | Roger McNamee

According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, his creation was supposed “to make the world more open and ... Read more

26 Mar 2019

30mins

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America’s Impeachment Struggle | Noah Feldman

America’s Impeachment Struggle | Noah Feldman

Donald J. Trump became the third president in US history to be impeached. Whatever the impact on his prospects for re-el... Read more

17 Dec 2019

29mins

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A Referendum on the EU Experiment? | Yascha Mounk

A Referendum on the EU Experiment? | Yascha Mounk

European Parliament elections have traditionally been tedious, low-turnout affairs. But five years of financial and migr... Read more

21 May 2019

28mins

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The Future of the Establishment | Matthew Goodwin

The Future of the Establishment | Matthew Goodwin

As the United States and the United Kingdom gear up for elections in the next year, many are asking if populist national... Read more

22 Oct 2019

30mins

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The G20 On Shaky Ground | Lawrence Summers

The G20 On Shaky Ground | Lawrence Summers

Although fair and free trade is one of the G20’s guiding principles, protectionism has re-emerged in many member states ... Read more

2 Jul 2019

32mins

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What Do Mainstream Economists Get Wrong About Poverty And Growth? | Abhijit Banerjee

What Do Mainstream Economists Get Wrong About Poverty And Growth? | Abhijit Banerjee

By focusing on practical solutions to small questions, Abhijit Banerjee helped revolutionize development economics. Now,... Read more

18 Feb 2020

21mins

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The Secret Openings of US Foreign Policy | William Burns

The Secret Openings of US Foreign Policy | William Burns

When Donald Trump took the stage at his inauguration in January 2017, he promised to put an end to the multilateral appr... Read more

7 May 2019

31mins

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