Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

18 December 2024
The coming debt crisis will surpass that of the 1980s and disproportionately impact women, economist Ilene Grabel warns. Countries across the Global South are experiencing climate…
17 December 2024
Iulia-Alexandra Oprea, Associate Fellow at Center for Middle East and Global Order, explores Turkey's use of populist narratives to legitimize its recent assertiveness on the…
03 December 2024
In this column, Alfredo Toro Hardy resorts to Isaiah Berlin’s metaphor of the hedgehog and the fox to examine China’s contrasting strategies of the last decades. Isaiah Berlin…
02 December 2024
Martha Molfetas argues that regardless of recent events, it is still cheaper to save the planet than destroy it. Maybe the eternally burning mountain of natural gas should have…
25 November 2024
Scott Montgomery reflects on the causes of Trump's recent election victory and what it may mean for reactionary movements elsewhere. There is a view that says one should wait,…
19 November 2024
Branko Milanovic explores Trump's ideological bricolage. Does Donald J. Trump have an ideology, and what it is? The first part of the question is redundant: every…
13 November 2024
In his monthly column, Alfredo Toro Hardy explains why the risk of nuclear war looks more ominous today than it did during the Cold War. After the interlude brought over by the…
05 November 2024
C. J. Polychroniou explores how Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa plan to counter the unipolar power of the US and Europe. The recently concluded 2024 BRICS…
04 November 2024
Scott L. Montgomery explores what kept Smith and Hamilton up by candlelight, and what its says about America’s contemporary cult(ure) of leadership. Bad leaders are said…
25 October 2024
Scott L. Montgomery on the global ramifications of Trump’s anti-truth serum. “I have the best words,” Donald Trump has often said. To be sure, it isn’t news that both he and…