Project Syndicate

By Guillermo Ortiz MEXICO CITY – Many of the assumptions underlying the conventional wisdom about globalization in the early 2000s have been upended in recent years.

By Chris Patten LONDON – In the seventeenth century, Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Colony founder John Winthrop described the new settlement as “a city on a hill” – a phrase he borrowed from the Gospel of Matthew.

By Jorge G. Castañeda MEXICO CITY – Latin America has not figured prominently in US President Donald Trump’s foreign and trade policies during his first 100 days in office, despite the appointment of a Latino – Marco Rubio – as Secretary of State.

By Harold James PRINCETON – According to US President Donald Trump and his advisers, the international monetary system is broken and works to the disadvantage of Americans.

By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – When economists celebrate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations next year, US President Donald Trump’s mercantilism will constitute an incongruous backdrop.

By Shaida Badiee, Joel Gurin, Claire Melamed WASHINGTON, DC – In recent months, thousands of web pages and datasets have been removed from United States government websites.

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – We are barely 100 days into US President Donald Trump’s second term, but much is already clear.

By Paul De Grauwe LONDON – Donald Trump’s tariff chaos has already offered some valuable lessons about both the US economy and Trump himself.

By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS – Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly liberal when it prevailed 50 years ago.

By Martín Guzmán, Joseph E. Stiglitz ROME – With the passing of Pope Francis, the world has lost an extraordinary leader.

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – Donald Trump is proving to be extraordinarily efficient at self-destruction.

By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs SANTIAGO – On April 2, the United States announced a raft of “reciprocal” tariffs, ranging from an additional 10% to 50%, on imported goods.

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM – It has been nearly 100 days since Donald Trump returned to the US presidency and Russian missiles continue to rain down on Ukrainian civilians.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Donald Trump is quickly turning the United States into the greatest tax haven in history.

By Jayati Ghosh NEW DELHI – US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have unleashed economic chaos, roiling stock and bond markets and triggering panic around the world, especially in lower-income countries that rely heavily on exports to the United States.

By Enrique Krauze MEXICO CITY – Thinking of the Peruvian Nobel laureate author Mario Vargas Llosa just a few weeks before he died at the age of 89, I remembered a poem that has been sung at the Passover Seder since the ninth century.

By Daniel Gros BRUSSELS – On April 2, US President Donald Trump proposed sweeping tariffs on nearly all of America’s trading partners, wiping more than $5 trillion from the value of global stock markets, and fueling recession fears.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva NEW YORK – The US and Russian delegations that just met in Istanbul had made it clear that they were there to discuss the normalization of their diplomatic missions’ work, not the war in Ukraine.

By Orville Schell NEW YORK – “Today we’re in one era, and tomorrow we’ll be in a different era,” President Donald Trump loudly proclaimed from the White House Rose Garden as he hiked US tariffs to their highest level since 1909.

By Shamika Sirimanne, Xiaolan Fu GENEVA/LONDON – AI is often presented as the next peak of human innovation, owing to its potential to revolutionize industries, transform economies, and improve lives.