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Because Russia's war against Ukraine could not go unpunished, the use of painful, sweeping economic sanctions is clearly justified. In the future, though, these powerful new tools will need to be subject to proper controls; otherwise, they could trigger a reversal of globalization – and of the prosperity that it has made possible.
America finds itself in the grips of two epidemics, each of which has exposed deep inequalities across races and levels of educational attainment. Between rising "deaths of despair" among working-class whites and higher COVID-19 mortality rates among African-Americans, the stunning secular decline in US life expectancy will continue. Suite par Project Syndicate 
Sur les présumés effets néfastes de la globalisation; encore une occasion de relire la loi des débouchés de Jean-Baptiste Say.
La position de l’Allemagne en Europe paraît de plus en plus particulière et vulnérable. Dans le chaos de la réunification allemande en 1990, alors que les voisins de l’Allemagne étaient terrifiés par le nouveau géant, le Chancelier de l’époque, Helmut Kohl, avait promis une Allemagne européenne, et non pas une Europe allemande. Aujourd’hui, pourtant, les termes de n’importe quel effort de sauvetage européen sont clairement dictés par l’Allemagne... Lire la suite...
What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began in Tunisia crest in lower Manhattan, or is 2012 likely to see an escalation of the politics of dissent? The answers are alarming but quite predictable: we are likely to see much greater centralization of top-down suppression – and a rash of laws around the developed and developing world that restrict human rights. But we are also likely to see significant grassroots reaction. Lire.
