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Camila Villard Duran explains why emerging-market economies face scrutiny from the West for developing domestic payment platforms. project-syndicate.org/commentary/mon…

For years, policymakers argued that stronger action against online child abuse required more evidence. But that is no longer a credible excuse, Andy Phippen shows. bit.ly/4n7addi

Brahma Chellaney argues that the administration’s personalized, opaque, and venal approach is incompatible with global power. project-syndicate.org/commentary/tru…

As the economic consequences of @realDonaldTrump’s war of choice against Iran become increasingly evident, policymakers around the world are growing alarmed. But the greatest damage may be borne by the US itself, writes @Cornell’s @kaushikcbasu. bit.ly/3PcWmFG

While the legacy of enslaved resistance informs political debates in post-colonial societies, it is often downplayed in former slaveholding countries. A new book puts it at the center of modern political thought, writes @LSEnews’ Jake Subryan Richards. bit.ly/4ulwvu0

Integrating Indian talent into US-led ecosystems is the only way for American firms to maintain their edge against a competitor that views technology as a tool of state control rather than individual empowerment, @Ylli_Bajraktari and @d_jaishankar argue. bit.ly/4tOvDym

Autocratic leaders like Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot permit intellectual freedom while guaranteeing that it will not undermine the system itself, notes @AsiaSociety’s @samchetwin. bit.ly/4cLEcnz

.@Claudiashein's government might not appear fragile just yet, but systems built on concentrated power often appear robust, precisely because they suppress institutional friction, points out Guillermo Ortiz. bit.ly/4eWdnyh

Christian nationalism has always relied on a mistaken view of international conflict as a “clash of civilizations,” and @realDonaldTrump has simply offered an extreme caricature of this framing, Harold James explains. bit.ly/4n35ysJ

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The question for development in the 21st century is not whether governments should intervene after markets have already failed. It is what kind of economy we want to build in the first place, @MazzucatoM and @LaraMerling explain. bit.ly/4un8ymf

On #WorldPressFreedomDay, the challenge is not only defending press freedom, but preserving journalism’s ability to hold the powerful to account. Check out our Press Released topic page: bit.ly/4tsEGEh

Viktor Orbán’s fall—the latest episode in an historical dialogue between Hungary and China that started in 1956—will only reinforce Xi Jinping’s conviction that no amount of political liberalization is safe, argues @AsiaSociety’s @samchetwin. bit.ly/4cLEcnz

The economic case for a service-based toll system on the Strait of Hormuz, administered by Iran in coordination with the Gulf states, is strong, Massoud Karshenas, @HPesaran, and Ron Smith argue. bit.ly/4n96vQq

.@Pontifex is not the first pope to call out an empire that has lost its way. John Paul II did the same vis-à-vis the Soviet Union, Harold James observes. bit.ly/4n35ysJ

If you are a university president who has preemptively kowtowed to the Trumpists, you have already failed in your duties, Jan-Werner Mueller argues. bit.ly/4t41ppK

On #WorldPressFreedomDay, @CarlaNorrlof warns that press freedom is eroding not through overt censorship, but through something more subtle: the weakening of journalism’s ability to translate facts into accountability. When truth no longer produces consequences, democratic decay becomes less visible —but more entrenched. bit.ly/4w5iPF9

The US recognizes that to win the global AI-adoption race, AI diplomacy must be a core instrument of statecraft. This makes India not a junior partner, but a strategic multiplier, @Ylli_Bajraktari and @d_jaishankar explain. bit.ly/4tOvDym

Historian Sudhir Hazareesingh’s recent book offers a rich, nuanced account of how enslaved Africans carried practices of resistance across the Atlantic, reshaping Western liberalism, says @LSEnews’ Jake Subryan Richards. bit.ly/4ulwvu0

The US recognizes that to win the global AI-adoption race, AI diplomacy must be a core instrument of statecraft. This makes India not a junior partner, but a strategic multiplier, @Ylli_Bajraktari and @d_jaishankar explain. bit.ly/3PcWmFG