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[Andreas Kluth] France, Germany agree on US more than they realize

EditorialNov 30, 2020

“I profoundly disagree” with the German defense minister, French President Emmanuel Macron said the other day, calling her view on trans-Atlantic relations “a historical misinterpretation.” The Germa...
[Mihir Sharma] Price of making vaccines too expensive

ViewpointsNov 26, 2020

The world is unequal enough and the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to make things more unequal still. Poorer countries have had to take on debt they will struggle to pay back. Their more fragile health ...
[David Fickling] Beyond Meat faces ancient rival in China -- Tofu

ViewpointsNov 25, 2020

You wouldn’t try to sell coal to Newcastle. So how would you rate your chances of peddling meat substitutes to the country that invented tofu? Beyond Meat Inc., the US maker of plant-based burgers a...
[Max Nisen] A giant leap against pandemics

ViewpointsNov 19, 2020

The world now seems likely to have at least two effective vaccines against COVID-19 with Monday’s announcement of positive early data from Moderna Therapeutics’s 30,000-person clinical trial. The res...
[David Fickling] The might-is-right trade era

ViewpointsNov 18, 2020

If you wanted a demonstration of how the world’s largest free trade area is likely to fall short of expectations, you could do worse than look at the customs sheds at Shanghai’s Pudong airport. As f...
[Andreas Kluth] Inevitable legacy of COVID pandemic

ViewpointsNov 17, 2020

“So when our Sickness, and our Poverty Had greater wants than we could well supply; Strict Orders did but more enrage our grief, And hinder in accomplishing relief.” That’s how the British poet Geor...
[Daniel Moss] North-South split shows there’s no Asian model

ViewpointsNov 13, 2020

The grinding recovery from the epic global recession has generated a deep divide within Asia: Economies in the north are ascendant and their once faster-growing southern neighbors are mired in a deep...
[David Fickling] Biden, like Trump, will deepen integration with China

ViewpointsNov 12, 2020

To look at the politics of it, you might think that four years of President Donald Trump’s trade war on China were just starting to bear fruit as he prepares to leave office. Japanese Prime Minister...
[Noah Smith] Biden will need to get creative to save the economy

ViewpointsNov 11, 2020

Joe Biden has been elected to be the next president of the United States. Now he’ll have to get creative. When the president-elect takes office, he’ll confront the country’s two most acute challenge...
[Andreas Kluth] Populist politics in Poland serves as warning to US

ViewpointsNov 10, 2020

In 2015, the year before Donald Trump became president of the US, a similar power shift occurred in Eastern Europe, albeit on a smaller scale. Like America soon after, Poland veered hard-right toward...
[Noah Feldman] Trump’s Supreme Court threat will backfire in a legal battle

ViewpointsNov 6, 2020

Regardless of what happens in the vote counting, President Donald Trump has said he is going to the Supreme Court to ask for … something or other. When he does, he will have to overcome a hurdle of h...
[Cass R. Sunstein] Don’t invoke Bush versus Gore

ViewpointsNov 5, 2020

It’s Election Day, and there are already lawsuits challenging votes and voting procedures. Some of them are invoking the Supreme Court’s 2000 decision in Bush v. Gore, which effectively handed that y...
[Noah Feldman] Last check on presidential power

ViewpointsNov 4, 2020

After four years of President Donald Trump’s assault on the US constitution, it comes down to this. The courts have done what they could to limit the damage; the House of Representatives impeached hi...
[Stephen L. Carter] The odds of a disputed election

ViewpointsNov 3, 2020

As Election Day nears, the possibility of a disputed presidential election is worrying a lot of people. You’ve heard the scenarios: An embittered Donald Trump loses but refuses to leave the Oval Offi...
[Noah Smith] Japan needs political will to meet its carbon pledge

ViewpointsNov 2, 2020

Japan’s bold pledge to cut net carbon emissions to zero by 2050 is very doable, but will require a degree of political will and coordinated, farsighted policymaking that the nation hasn’t enjoyed for...