Although the Trump administration is rightly rethinking the heavy-handed banking measures implemented after the 2008 financial crisis, it is also slashing staff at key regulatory agencies, reducing ...

Guillermo Ortiz highlights the increasingly visible effects of political centralization and poor use of fiscal resources.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sought to tame Hungary’s independent media outlets through regulatory engineering, financial ...

Federico Fubini sees striking parallels between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s catastrophic wars of choice.

Pegah Banihashemi sees two scenarios, neither of them hopeful, emerging from a profoundly disrupted legal and institutional ...

Dianne Araral & Eduardo Araral caution that escaping one form of geopolitical vulnerability does not eliminate the influence ...

Chiara Cordelli shows how right-wing populism and war in the Middle East are inspiring renewed democratic and green activism.

Anne-Marie Slaughter & Stephen B. Heintz explain how those still committed to multilateralism can go about preserving it.

Erian warns that, despite its strengths, the economy will not remain insulated from the Iran war’s adverse spillovers.

Daniel Gros thinks central banks have learned their lesson after failing to act fast enough in 2022.

Iran’s current strategy in the war with the United States and Israel is designed to demonstrate the regime’s resilience, and ...

Joschka Fischer For the past decade, Donald Trump has promised to put America first by keeping the country out of any more costly “forever wars”—a message that has carried him to the US presidency ...