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WASHINGTON, DC – OpenAI Co-Founder Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have joined the...

LONDON – Why are citizens of free countries increasingly disenchanted with democracy and tempted to vote for populists and authoritarians?Peruse...

ABIDJAN/CLERMONT-FERRAND/OXFORD – The value-added tax (VAT) is one of the most widely implemented tax innovations of the past 70 years....

NEW YORK – On September 24, 20 democratic countries from the Global North and South – including Brazil, Chile, Norway,...

WASHINGTON, DC – As was widely expected, the US Federal Reserve has lowered its policy rate by 25 basis points,...

PARIS – In November 1985, during their first summit in Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev slipped away...

CAMBRIDGE – To understand the populist revolt against free trade and other pillars of mainstream economics – a revolt that...

ADDIS ABABA – Next month, heads of state and government, climate scientists, private-sector leaders, civil-society and youth representatives, and global...

LONDON – Much about life under US President Donald Trump’s second administration is mystifying and strange, not least his treatment...

Dambisa Moyo Dambisa Moyo, an international economist, is the author of four New York Times best-selling books, including Edge of...