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William H. Janeway sees parallels between today’s investor frenzy and previous new technologies that took decades to pay off. project-syndicate.org/onpoin…

If @MLP_officiel of the far-right National Rally wins the French presidency next year, we may also be witnessing the start of a systemic transformation with dire implications for Europe, Joschka Fischer warns. project-syndicate.org/commen…

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While the Trump administration’s Super Intelligence Force points toward creating reporting mechanisms for breaches, hacks, and other AI incidents, that is not the same as establishing a company reporting obligation, note @wstv_lizzi and @simonhedlin. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The deep insights shared by knowledgeable experts from both sides of the Sino-American divide at the Bund Summit gave Stephen S. Roach (@ssruschina.bsky.social) hope for US-China ties in the post-@realDonaldTrump era. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Six high-profile billionaires who would have owed about one-quarter of a proposed wealth tax's expected revenues left California before its residency date, taking their future income-tax payments with them, note Laura Tyson and @Lenny_Mendonca1. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The new geopolitics of mining pits international dealmakers, who want quick and large returns, against mining companies, which must keep host-country populations on side, writes @NgaireWoods (@BlavatnikSchool). project-syndicate.org/commen…

China has built more residential property per capita than the UK or France, despite being far poorer. Now it faces the painful task of working off a massive construction overhang that could haunt its economy for years, notes @Harvard’s @krogoff. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Serbia’s new opposition won by presenting democracy not as an abstract concept, but as the instrument for upholding deeply held values and advancing tangible goals such as economic prosperity, @CEUDemInst's Filip Milačić explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Both France and Germany are reverting to their old ways. The timing, for the rest of Europe, could not be worse, Harold James warns. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Digital platforms reward speed and emotional intensity. Democratic movements must understand and exploit those incentives, which turned out to be crucial to @LulaOficial's improbable election victory, write Robert Muggah and @IlonaSzaboC. project-syndicate.org/commen…

AI development and deployment will be safer and more beneficial if a wider range of countries can help shape it, observe @NewAmerica’s @GordonLaForge and Robert C. Orr. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Without fiscal adjustment, Brazil’s debt will increase by another ten percentage points over the next four years. But there is no sign the newly re-elected President @LulaOficial will show the necessary restraint, laments @genefrieda. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Robert Muggah and @IlonaSzaboC place @LulaOficial's improbable election victory in the context of recent electoral outcomes in Hungary and Serbia. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Nouriel Roubini identifies the factors that could turn rising public debt and interest rates into a serious problem. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Ngaire Woods thinks the US-China race to expand critical-mineral extraction could roil host-country politics. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca worry that a proposed one-time duty on billionaires’ assets will erode future revenues. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@ICEL_indo’s Grita Anindarini encourages policymakers to explore the possibility of a regional endowment fund that could redirect government revenue derived from mining and fossil-fuel production toward supporting community-based transitions. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Europe's prospects are bleak, partly because some of the most conspicuous steps toward European integration in the post-Cold War era remain incomplete, Harold James explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…