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  1. Gordon Brown

    Gordon Brown

    Writing for PS since 2010
    108 Commentaries

    Gordon Brown, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom, is UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of Education Cannot Wait.

  2. Eric Posner

    Eric Posner

    Writing for PS since 2019
    31 Commentaries

    Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  3. Ian Bremmer

    Ian Bremmer

    Writing for PS since 2006
    30 Commentaries

    Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

  4. Pranab Bardhan

    Pranab Bardhan

    Writing for PS since 2010
    13 Commentaries

    Pranab Bardhan, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author, most recently, of A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries (Harvard University Press, 2022).

  5. Sania Nishtar

    Sania Nishtar

    Writing for PS since 2013
    8 Commentaries

    Sania Nishtar is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

  6. Teresa Ghilarducci

    Teresa Ghilarducci

    Writing for PS since 2018
    7 Commentaries

    Teresa Ghilarducci is Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research.

  7. Maurice Obstfeld

    Maurice Obstfeld

    Writing for PS since 2017
    4 Commentaries

    Maurice Obstfeld, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

  8. Alison L. LaCroix

    Alison L. LaCroix

    Writing for PS since 2022
    4 Commentaries

    Alison L. LaCroix, a former member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, is Professor of Law and an associate member of the History Department at the University of Chicago and the author of the forthcoming The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, May 2024).

  9. Rainer Kattel

    Rainer Kattel

    Writing for PS since 2021
    2 Commentaries

    Rainer Kattel is Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

  10. Silke Bollmohr

    Silke Bollmohr

    Writing for PS since 2022
    2 Commentaries

    Silke Bollmohr, Founder of EcoTrac Consulting, is Senior Policy Adviser for Global Food Policy and Agriculture at INKOTA netzwerk.

  11. Manica Balasegaram

    Manica Balasegaram

    Writing for PS since 2023
    2 Commentaries

    Manica Balasegaram is Executive Director of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership.

  12. Harun Warui

    Harun Warui

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Harun Warui is Project Lead of the Route to Food Initiative at the Heinrich Böll Foundation office in Nairobi.

  13. Nancy Isenberg

    Nancy Isenberg

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Nancy Isenberg, Emeritus Professor of History at Louisiana State University, is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality, and White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Penguin Books).

  14. Carolyn J. Heinrich

    Carolyn J. Heinrich

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Carolyn J. Heinrich is Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics at Vanderbilt University.

  15. Jodie Ginsberg

    Jodie Ginsberg

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Jodie Ginsberg is CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization working worldwide to ensure that journalists can report freely and safely.

  16. Tatyana Deryugina

    Tatyana Deryugina

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Tatyana Deryugina is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

  17. Gaurav Dalmia

    Gaurav Dalmia

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Gaurav Dalmia is Chairman of Dalmia Group Holdings, a leading Indian investment company.

  18. Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury is the co-author (with John Keane) of To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  19. Eleanor Carter

    Eleanor Carter

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Eleanor Carter is Academic Co-Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.

  20. Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir is Minister of Culture and Business Affairs of Iceland.

  1. bp india election Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images

    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown

    Just as governments are working tirelessly to conclude negotiations on a new pandemic treaty, a torrent of misinformation and fake news has been unleashed to undermine the process. For the sake of current and future generations, policymakers must resist the propaganda and get the job done.

    hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.
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    When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?

    Peter Singer rejects comparisons of the recent US campus protests to the actions of Nazi student groups in the 1930s.
  6. Project Syndicate

    Trump’s Plans for the Fed Would Revive 1970s-Style Inflation

    Maurice Obstfeld thinks the presumptive GOP nominee’s policies reflect an outdated understanding of the economy.
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    Mandela’s Heirs Face Their Biggest Election Test

    Adekeye Adebajo explains why the African National Congress could lose its 30-year monopoly on power.
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    What Explains the BJP’s Rise?

    Gaurav Dalmia ennumerates the reasons why the ruling party has come to dominate the country’s electoral landscape.
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    Why China Provides Evidence for Optimists and Pessimists Alike

    Zhang Jun explains why rigorous, evidence-based assessments of the economy's performance can diverge sharply.

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