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Adam Ezra Cohen is Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Harvard University.

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  1. Defunding Harvard Hurts America
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    Defunding Harvard Hurts America

    May 28, 2025 Adam Cohen explains the real-world consequences of canceling federal research grants in the name of fighting antisemitism.

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    Ukraine’s Strategic Game-Changer

    Ian Bremmer considers the implications of the recent drone strikes against strategic targets deep inside Russia.
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    Rethinking Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

    Rola Dashti, et al. explain why a uniform levy on emissions-intensive imports threatens the legitimacy of global climate action.
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    America Needs a Smarter Government, Not Just a Smaller One

    Michele Zanini & Gary Hamel outline several steps that policymakers can take to reduce bureaucracy and strengthen accountability.
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    Trump’s War on Knowledge

    Ian Buruma attributes the MAGA assault on higher education to a combination of personal mediocrity and class resentment.
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    The Bonfire of the Banking Regulators?

    Willem H. Buiter

    Burdened by redundant agencies and outdated structures, the United States’ fragmented system of financial oversight undermines accountability and stifles innovation. The solution lies in streamlining regulation for both money issuers and financial intermediaries.

     proposes radical reform of America’s complex, often chaotic supervisory regime – and the system it oversees.
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    Can Democracy Re-Emerge From the Populist Shadows?

    Chris Patten explains how institutional resilience and international cooperation could counter reckless policymaking.
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    Trump vs. a United ASEAN

    Kishore Mahbubani touts the group’s efforts to deepen cooperation, both internally and with other economies and regional blocs.
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    Sudan’s Srebrenica Moment

    Ibrahim Alduma, et al. urge intervention to stop the genocide, back grassroots activists, and penalize those stoking conflict.
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    America’s Weak Strongman

    Timothy Snyder

    US President Donald Trump is strong in a relative sense: after he destroys institutions, what remains is his presence, surrounded by incompetent sycophants. But he is weak because, having destroyed so much state capacity, the United States has no actual tools to deal with the rest of the world.

     observes that countries like Russia and China understand the meaning of TACO better than Wall Street does.

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