BRAHMA CHELLANEY Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote in 2014 that Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major...

BARRY EICHENGREEN An obscure corner of the digital sphere that was poorly understood two years ago is now subject to increasingly intense...

WERNER HOYER Although Africa still suffers some of the highest poverty rates in the world, the continent overall has massive potential to...

MINXIN PEI The Communist Party of China’s crackdown on ride-hailing firm Didi over supposed data-security concerns seems to be just the...

GEOFFREY HEAL By siding with major food corporations over six Malian former child slaves who were seeking compensation under US tort...

SIGMAR GABRIEL In seeking to renew the image of liberal democracy in an age of rising authoritarianism, US President Joe Biden recognizes...

DANIEL GROS Different economic conditions and priorities in the US and the eurozone are leading to divergent macroeconomic-policy...

JAYATI GHOSH There is no magic bullet that can ensure emerging Asian economies actually emerge and live up to their huge promise. But,...

SHANG-JIN WEI At-risk economies may have six months or so to implement self-help measures before any sudden US monetary-policy tightening...

AMAL DE CHICKERA Today, an estimated 15 million people are stateless, and tens of millions more are at risk of losing their nationality....

BILL EMMOTT A growing chorus is calling for the long-awaited Tokyo Olympics to be canceled, even though the facts on the ground leave...

ANYA SCHIFFRIN While media capture occurs in the best of times, a crisis creates opportunities to act even more brazenly to assert...

MARK MALLOCH-BROWN For decades, democracy and human-rights advocates have operated on the assumption that a growing number of governments...

JOSEPH S. NYE, JR. Even if formal cybersecurity treaties are unworkable, it may still be possible to set limits on certain types of...

SŁAWOMIR SIERAKOWSKI By reclaiming the leadership of Poland's liberal center-right party, former European Council President Donald Tusk...

JULIANA BARTELS It is imperative that the G20 finance ministers' meeting in Venice this week act to provide the COVID-19 vaccines needed...

DJOOMART OTORBAEV With US and NATO troops on their way out and the Taliban making rapid territorial gains, Russia, China, and Central...

MELVYN B. KRAUSS Notwithstanding the predictable howls of protest from some Europeans, US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel...

NANCY QIAN From the Great Leap Forward to family-planning restrictions, China's rise has been marred by serious policy failures. Whether...

HUGO DROCHON Now that vaccine hesitancy has emerged as a major threat to achieving herd immunity, public authorities might be tempted to...

LUIGI ZINGALES All too often, entrepreneurs and managers use the threat of massive layoffs to extract large unwarranted subsidies. After...

KENNETH ROGOFF Most of Latin America is still far from the horrific conditions prevailing in Venezuela, where output has fallen by a...

KOICHI HAMADA As long as there is no major uptick in inflation, central banks would do well to sustain their expansionary monetary...

SIMON JOHNSON We can and should prepare for all the specific shocks we can imagine. And what we've learned over the past 30 years is that...