Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud and Luis Garicano rebut the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman's recent claim that the gap with the US is a statistical mirage.

Stephen Holmes thinks the deepest fissure opening up in Donald Trump’s political base runs through the US electrical grid.

In recent years, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s focus on religious identity, together with its “purification” of voter rolls, has created a more binary—and potentially volatile—political ...

Harold James sees UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s loss of political authority as symptomatic of a broader malaise.

Stephen S. Roach thinks Xi Jinping’s hierarchy of ultimatums, with Taiwan now firmly at the top, is sending mixed signals.

Daron Acemoglu identifies the flawed and dangerous assumptions about AI that are guiding the technology’s design.

Johan Rockström & Inga Strümke detail the lengths to which the country has gone to transform itself into a global innovation ...

Gaurav Dalmia & Chetan Aggarwal suggest how the country can leverage its relative strength to build long-term resilience.

Policymakers have used the concept of a “just transition” to make a morally and emotionally compelling case for decarbonization. But the experiences of Ethiopia, Pakistan, and South Africa show that ...

With AI hype reaching fever pitch, a backlash has begun, with university graduates, in particular, resisting a technology ...

Anne O. Krueger is not surprised that the shakedown of allies and adversaries alike is failing economically and strategically ...

Giulio Boccaletti argues that collective action may provide the common purpose needed to revive the continent’s integration.