Comment

Establishing and expanding open financial-data ecosystems presents complex technical and regulatory challenges, but offer a large potential upside. A column by Olivia White and Anu Madgavkar.

Regulation can help: by separating the «social» from the «media»: We should separate social media’s networking infrastructure from the editorial role. A column by Luigi Zingales.

In any case, idealism is not actually so idealistic when a country has enough power, and the only thing that is clear now is that America doesn’t. A column by Eric Posner.

China’s new data-privacy law will increase the compliance burden for China’s Big Tech firms, but in the end it might even turn out to be a blessing in disguise for them. A column by Angela Huyue Zhang.

When foreign aid becomes a country’s dominant source of income, it fosters so much rent-seeking and corruption that the population might ultimately prefer a new – or old – regime. A column by Daniel Gros.

In looking for a new path forward, the essential message of 1931 and 1971 should be heeded. Chaotic financial transitions are also security challenges. A column by Harold James.

When considering proposals to change America’s economic and political system, the far-reaching benefits offered by the system must not be forgotten or ignored. A column by Anne O. Krueger.

America’s humbling defeat in Afghanistan is a big step toward recreating the perfect storm that led to slow growth and very high inflation of the 1970s. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

Artificial intelligence will reorganize the world and change the course of human history. The democratic world must lead that process. A column by Eric Schmidt.

There is time for Biden to recover, but his honeymoon has clearly ended with the disastrous decision to withdraw the last US forces from Afghanistan without a plan. A column by Michael J. Boskin.

A war between the US and China today is no more inevitable than was war between the rising US and the declining United Kingdom a century ago. By Charles C. Krulak and Alexander Friedman.

Although the top-down approach to state-building has worked in some cases, most states have been constructed not by force but by compromise and cooperation. A column by Daron Acemoglu.