Shock therapy killed Navalny
While Vladimir Putin’s role is all but undeniable, there is a silent accomplice whose part in this tragedy must not be ignored.
‘Women’s economics’ goes mainstream
Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize puts women’s labour-force participation and the gender pay gap at the centre of economics.
After the ‘Beijing consensus’
China’s development model has often been positioned as an alternative to the long-dominant ‘Washington consensus’.
The Supreme Court kicks away the ladder
The US Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action in university admissions has struck at the heart of the ‘American dream’.
Wanted: Vladimir Putin
Whether Russia’s president ever ends up in handcuffs, the International Criminal Court’s indictment is a big step in the right direction.
Killing Twitter
Elon Musk claims he bought the platform to ‘help humanity’ by investing in a public good—the world’s digital town square. But the people, not the pavement, make the town square.
Boris Johnson’s last affair?
His cardinal sin is to have forgotten the core tenet of the rule of law: those who make the rules are bound by them.