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India’s Chauvinist Crusade (Shashi Tharoor, Project-Syndicate)

For decades, India was seen as a rare democratic success story in the developing world. But, by barring NGOs, including Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of...

The Security Consequences of America’s China Focus (Minxin Pei, Project-Syndicate)

With the United States’ security strategy now dominated by the China threat, some regional powers will be tempted to engage in aggression against weaker...

The Clash of Cultures (Harold James, Project-Syndicate)

Politics nowadays is driven almost entirely by culture wars – zero-sum clashes that feed on tribal identities, fear, and a chaotic confusion of basic...

North Korea a hermit kingdom again (Andrei Lankov, East Asia Forum)

The year 2021 was a time of acute crisis and radical changes in North Korean policy — mostly for the worse. North Korea a hermit...

Getting real about the hydrogen economy (Cheng Cheng and Andrew Blakers, East Asia Forum)

Hydrogen is frequently touted as a major player in decarbonisation, and it is. But it will only be used at scale much later, and...

Combatting America’s crisis of despair by investing in brains. A grand strategy to protect and build our brain infrastructure (Harris A. Eyre and Carol...

Brain challenges are jeopardizing our communities. These range from mental health to neurological and substance abuse disorders, loneliness, and now long COVID-19. They result...

Advancing precision medicine through agile governance. Bridging innovation and regulation for the greater good (Kevin W. Doxzen, Landry Signé, and Diana M. Bowman, Brookings)

The convergence of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, including genome editing and artificial intelligence, are revolutionizing modern medicine. At the nexus of these tools sits...

Postwar development of civil society in Iraq’s mid-Euphrates region (Marsin Alshamary, Brookings)

Although relatively prosperous and stable, the mid-Euphrates region of Iraq has not been successful in producing a civil society that promotes and produces democratic...

It’s time to start scoring legislation on climate impacts (Caroline George and Adie Tomer, Brookings)

Amid a series of major infrastructure negotiations in 2021, Congress made a huge decision. Legislators removed the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP)—a kind of carrot-and-stick system...

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