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[Ferdinando Giugliano] Do not force people back into office

ViewpointsSept 21, 2020

The end of the summer holidays and the reopening of schools have sparked a lively debate over the future of remote working. From the US to the UK, politicians and employers are nudging workers to ret...
[Chris Bryant] No revenue is no problem in 2020 stock market

ViewpointsSept 21, 2020

Wall Street isn’t always too fussed about whether a startup is profitable before listing on the stock exchange. A decent track record of sales growth is usually pretty essential, though. That quaint...
[Noah Smith] Trump’s trade war failed. Can Biden do better?

ViewpointsSept 17, 2020

With the US presidential campaign heading into the home stretch, President Donald Trump will surely try to tout his record on economic issues. But the numbers don’t speak well of his policies. Unfort...
[Daniel Moss] Japan’s policy revolution could start at the margins

ViewpointsSept 16, 2020

Japan’s likely next prime minister is a huge fan of Shinzo Abe. That doesn’t mean Yoshihide Suga is a carbon copy. Indeed, the shades of difference between the two men on some key issues are importa...
[Faye Flam] ’Follow the science’ just a slogan

ViewpointsSept 15, 2020

Anyone observing President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the US would have good reason to wonder if his administration ever had much of a strategy for handling it. Last week ...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Brave new words hint at a less democratic future

ViewpointsSept 14, 2020

In politics, language is a reliable indicator of the direction of travel. Today, rhetoric from the Republican Party convention in the US to India, and from Poland to Brazil, points away from liberal ...
[David Fickling] Australia has a nuclear option in China diplomacy

ViewpointsSept 14, 2020

After years of slow deterioration, diplomatic relations between China and Australia have taken a sharp turn for the worse. The disputes range from pressure on journalists, to spying allegations, to a...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] ECB needs Italy and Spain to help themselves

ViewpointsSept 10, 2020

The European Central Bank’s governing council meets this week amid a less optimistic mood than before the summer break. The recovery in Europe is losing speed and there are early signs of divergence,...
[Ramesh Ponnuru] A smarter way for Biden to attack Trump

ViewpointsSept 9, 2020

President Donald Trump poses an unusual problem for his opposition. He’s “a target-rich environment,” said Ruy Teixeira, a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress. “He has befuddled...
[Michael R. Strain] Exploding US debt is a problem, not an emergency

ViewpointsSept 8, 2020

The US Government programs to blunt the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic will make the federal budget deficit much wider in 2020 than at any point in the last 75 years. The nonpartisan Con...
[Mihir Sharma] Rest of Asia will miss Abe more than Japan will

ViewpointsSept 7, 2020

A month before he ended his first stint as Japan’s prime minister in 2007, Shinzo Abe addressed the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. Quoting the Mughal scholar-prince Dara Shikoh, Abe spoke of the “co...
[Tyler Cowen] No, America will not be canceled

ViewpointsSept 4, 2020

One of the most hotly debated questions among my friends and acquaintances lately is this: Is America headed for a future in which just about everyone has been canceled? Fortunately, while “cancel c...
[Tim Culpan] China just called Trump’s bluff on TikTok

ViewpointsSept 2, 2020

Imagine a bidder wanting to buy KFC, but being told the deal might not include the Colonel’s 11 secret herbs and spices. That’s effectively what Beijing has told the list of US companies keen to purc...
[Anjani Trivedi] The big China disaster you’re missing

ViewpointsSept 1, 2020

The world’s largest dam is under pressure in the massive flooding that’s wiping away billions of dollars of value in China. The predicament symbolizes a looming crisis for Beijing. Climate change is...
[Noah Smith] Abe leaves behind a better Japan

ViewpointsAug 31, 2020

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, is resigning due to ulcerative colitis. He leaves behind a Japan that is both economically stronger and more socially liberal than the one he inher...