Robert Shapiro comments on the pessimism about Democratic prospects in 2022 and the anxiety about the 2024 presidential election.

In China, the pandemic, the government’s green industrial policy, tighter regulation of the property sector, and blacklists of online platforms have collectively curtailed growth. Shang-Jin Wei elaborates.

Arvind Panagariya elaborates on the reasons for India to review its current protectionist policy.

Robert "RJ" Johnston of SIPA's Center on Global Energy Policy comments on the change in US energy policy that comes with the new administration.

The Middle East’s politics cannot address a slow-moving transnational crisis like climate change, even though it affects everyone in the region, representing a more extreme version of current collective action problems, says Thanassis Cambanis.

If the G20 is serious about rectifying the injustice of cross-border tax abuse, it should support developing countries’ call to establish a global tax body at the UN, writes José Antonio Ocampo.

Returning from COP26 in Glasgow, Eduarda Zoghbi MPA '22 says that youth are tokenized by many organizations, companies, and governments as an example of their commitment to future generations, but their words are not transformed into action.

Jeffrey Sachs presented in the third installment of a fall lecture series entitled “The American State in a Multipolar World” on the importance of global cooperation amid current tensions between the United States and China, focusing on the goals of sustainable development, the potential climate consequences of a cold war between the United States and China, American exceptionalism and the threats it poses to international peace. 

The findings from the USA branch of the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network demonstrate that the nation is faltering when it comes to a “holistic picture of wellbeing,” as described by Jeffrey Sachs.