PS features exclusive commentaries from 45 Nobel laureates and 111 heads of state that deliver cutting-edge insight and analysis to readers around the world.

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Dec 29, 2017

The Economists Who Stole Christmas

How might opposing schools of economic thought — from neoclassical and Keynesian to Libertarian and Marxist, view Christmas presents? Levity aside, the answer reveals…

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Dec 29, 2017

Why Has Latin America Turned Away from the Left?

In Argentina and Brazil, one cannot understand recent political changes without reference to the corrupt antics of populist and semi-populist operatives…

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Dec 22, 2017

Racing the Machine

Economists have always believed that previous waves of job destruction led to an equilibrium between supply and demand in the labor market at a higher level of both employment and…

Has Interpol Become a Tool of Oppression?

Journalists are increasingly being targeted by Interpol arrest notices, as authoritarian regimes abuse a system meant to curb cross-border crime. Media advocacy…

Universal Education’s Moment of Truth

Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that every child should have access to free primary education. Yet, 69 years after that pledge, a…

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Dec 20, 2017

The EU Must Recognize the Palestinian State

At this point, the best way to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to return to the negotiating table is to work to level the playing field. Because the US…

A Climate Cure Worse than the Disease

The climate policies lauded in Paris at the One Planet Summit this month are essentially high-cost, low-effect gestures. While the EU will devote 20% of its budget…

The Meaty Side of Climate Change

“Carbon majors,” like big oil and gas companies, have long been the focus of efforts to curb climate change and stem rising temperatures. And yet, while energy giants like…

Seeing Through Big Tobacco’s Smokescreen

Legal setbacks in the US have forced the tobacco industry to concede that its products are harmful, and that for decades cigarette producers deliberately misled…

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Dec 18, 2017

Making the Most of the Brexit Deal

A chaotic Brexit, in which key questions about the relationship between the UK and the EU are left unanswered, may be avoided, but severe political and economic harm…

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