In a new PS Big Picture, PS contributors – including Anna Husarska, Harold James, @MichaelCJT, and @TimothyDSnyder – lambast a “peace” plan that fails on all counts and all but guarantees more war. https://t.co/d7PuMdmn8r

Europe must reclaim its technological edge by ensuring its firms help design the infrastructures, protocols, and standards that govern the digital economy, argue @thehertieschool’s @AnkeHassel and @waseda_univ’s Frieder Mitsch.

.@realDonaldTrump’s new National Security Strategy makes it abundantly clear that he has no intention of standing with Europe if it doesn’t fully embrace his MAGA ideology, writes @sciencespo’s @ZakiLaidi.

With US tariffs hurting Indian exports, firms are increasingly using the UAE as their gateway to American markets, note @InstituteGC’s @agarwal_vivek and Alexander George.

With international aid to pre-primary levels under 2% of all education assistance, childcare remains out of reach for most families in low-income countries, note @theirworld’s @justinvanfleet and @UNICEF’s Pia Rebello Britto.

Dalia Ghanem & Rachida Chahida-Ababsa caution that resolving North Africa’s deep-seated problems requires sustained policy, not quick deals. https://t.co/E1PCHm5ztC

Without determined regulatory enforcement, efforts to foster a thriving European tech industry will continue to be thwarted by US giants' anti-competitive tactics, explains @maxvonthun of @openmarkets.

Qiyuan Xu shows how the US-China tariff saga has increased global emissions, hindering efforts to fight climate change. https://t.co/Tg7uKAgVgx

Daniel Gros explains why retailers and wholesalers can't rely on them – and urges Europe to ignore the hype. https://t.co/0RWzLw9pCs

Slavoj Žižek sees Iran's mishandling of a life-threatening water crisis as a focal point of humanity's current predicament. https://t.co/HSeVH4pCKZ

Javier Solana & Angel Saz-Carranza argue that the unraveling of the postwar order calls for new ways to keep great-power rivalries in check. https://t.co/5HnNG1e5JR

On #HumanRightsDay, @AlexReeveGivens and @KarenKornbluh remind us that AI innovation must not come at the expense of human rights. Governments and companies have a responsibility to embed safeguards into AI systems, so that the technology is not used for surveillance or

Don’t miss our 2025 Holiday Reading List, featuring a selection of recent works by PS contributors – including Susan Stokes, Quinn Slobodian, and others – that deserve a place on your bookshelf (or holiday shopping list).

Philippe Aghion explains how advanced economies in Europe (or elsewhere) can find their way back to the technological frontier. https://t.co/shadCDSP7D

The new US National Security Strategy makes one thing abundantly clear, writes @RichardHaass: The era in which the US anchored alliances and international institutions and stood up for democracy and human rights has ended.

What makes @realDonaldTrump’s corruption distinctive is not simply its scale but its variety. A taxonomy of his use of the pardon power reveals at least six pathologies, observes Stephen Holmes. https://t.co/xQkXOaTpmn

Given her deep Christian Democratic political and philosophical commitments, @MariaCorinaYA's pandering to @realDonaldTrump should not remotely be seen as defining her, Piotr H. Kosicki argues.

At a time when clean drinking water is growing scarcer, a new proposal by Colombia and Oman aims to rein in damaging mining practices. It marks an important step toward stronger global standards, notes @BoellStiftung’s @JohannaSydow and Nsama Chikwanka.

Even if the Trump administration does manage to get a Ukraine peace agreement signed, what it contains – and what it omits – is likely to be a formula for renewed conflict. Read more in a new PS Big Picture, with @ZakiLaidi, @avalaina, Chris Patten, and others.

When governments invest in R&D or infrastructure, the economic gains unfold not over quarters or even electoral cycles, but over decades, notes Paolo Surico.