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While the US economic engine remains powerful, the workforce speedometer is slowing, leaving the @federalreserve with yet another conundrum, @elerianm observes. bit.ly/47aek1D


Governments must address Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health-care system. Failure to do so would create a dangerous precedent for future conflicts, warns @YaleMed’s Tushara Surapaneni. bit.ly/4mT5QAI


According to conventional wisdom, authoritarian populists are winning because democracy is not "delivering." It sounds plausible, but @AndresVelasco of @LSEnews isn't buying it. bit.ly/3ISniHI


Four years after the Taliban excluded girls and women in Afghanistan from secondary and higher education, the regime shut down the internet, depriving them of one of their last opportunities to learn, observes @GordonBrown. bit.ly/3W0qrbk


.@realDonaldTrump's tariffs are rippling through labor markets and dampening consumer demand around the world, compounding structural weaknesses in trade-dependent economies, @EswarSPrasad and Caroline Smiltneks warn. bit.ly/4qa9dpW


The tragedy of @EmmanuelMacron’s presidency is that what was billed as an alternative to hyper-partisanship has only deepened partisanship, observes @ZakiLaidi of @sciencespo. bit.ly/3IAFq8Y


When Chinese President Xi Jinping stood up to @realDonaldTrump, Trump caved. @JosephEStiglitz wonders when the EU's leaders will realize that they should do the same. bit.ly/4o5HnJq


A 350-foot tower with massive whirring turbine blades may well constitute a genuine nuisance for those living nearby, points out @DanielGrosCEPS (@CEPS_thinktank). Nonetheless, there is a straightforward way to secure local buy-in for wind projects. bit.ly/4mTW2GA


Will COP30 end with more lofty promises that will never be fulfilled? Or might it deliver a permanent pathway that embeds citizens into climate governance? In our #ClimateWeekNYC Studio Session – hosted with @iswe_org and the @_GlobalAssembly@SDDecleve and @GhoshArunabha


With bold action, backed by adequate financing and a sense of political urgency, the world can still deliver on the promise of free, equitable, and quality education for all, says Nobel Peace Prize laureate @k_satyarthi. bit.ly/429xwK7

ProSyn's tweet image. With bold action, backed by adequate financing and a sense of political urgency, the world can still deliver on the promise of free, equitable, and quality education for all, says Nobel Peace Prize laureate @k_satyarthi. bit.ly/429xwK7

Market dynamics today are reminiscent of the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, when mortgage risks were acknowledged but brushed aside as long as securitization kept delivering profits, @skalemliozcan worries. bit.ly/42uP3Na


Is “getting democracies to deliver” the key to preventing populism, democratic backsliding, and the emergence of “illiberal” democracies? As @AndresVelasco of @LSEnews shows, the data don't back it up. bit.ly/3ISniHI


Just as health workers have an ethical obligation to provide impartial medical care, world leaders have a moral imperative to uphold international law, writes @TheOpEdProject’s Tushara Surapaneni. bit.ly/4mT5QAI


.@lea_ypi’s new book is at its strongest when it confronts the question of how to maintain one’s integrity under authoritarian rule, offering a master class in recovering truth from history, writes @M_Ignatieff. bit.ly/4n9r1Pi

ProSyn's tweet image. .@lea_ypi’s new book is at its strongest when it confronts the question of how to maintain one’s integrity under authoritarian rule, offering a master class in recovering truth from history, writes @M_Ignatieff.
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The billions of dollars expected each year from the @IMOHQ’s binding price on shipping emissions could provide a boost to Africa’s existing green-hydrogen projects and spur new ones, explains @chuks_okereke. bit.ly/4nHVHIh


The Taliban’s recent internet cuts in Afghanistan underscore the urgency of the @UN recognizing and classifying gender apartheid as a crime against humanity, writes @GordonBrown. bit.ly/3W0qrbk


On #InternationalDayOfTheGirlChild, read @GordonBrown’s call for the international community to hold Afghanistan’s leaders accountable for their oppression of women and girls. Recognizing gender apartheid as a crime under international law, he argues, would mark a historic step…


.@ZakiLaidi of @sciencespo blames the country's deepening political crisis on several factors, not least an imperious president @EmmanuelMacron and the fecklessness of the three political blocs in the National Assembly. bit.ly/3IAFq8Y


.@realDonaldTrump's affirmation that the “Department of Defense” is now, once again, to be called the “Department of War" (@DeptofWar), signals America’s total abandonment of the rules-based international order, laments @anapalacio. bit.ly/4qiJZ8X


.@IMFNews’s gold reserves are worth $344 billion – more than Chile’s GDP. Selling just 10% of these holdings would generate enough funds to offset this year’s foreign-aid cuts, argue @GDP_Center’s @TimH_B and @MarinaZucker. bit.ly/3IWsD0C


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