Haitians are refusing to give up on their country and are standing up to the forces trying to tear it apart amid a severe security and humanitarian crisis. That’s why we at Open Society Foundations are supporting Haitian civil society with a $20 million investment. devex.com/news/opinion-h…

Amid a political, economic, and security crisis, Haiti also faces its greatest humanitarian crisis since the 2010 earthquake. We’re pledging $20 million for locally-led solutions aimed at supporting Haitian civil society, joining with @wk_kellogg_fdn: osf.to/3Umcqor

There are many important discussions in Washington DC this week on making up the huge shortfall in finance to tackle climate change. A relatively new agenda item this year – cause for real hope – is international taxation. (1/9)
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That's a good start: Mario Draghi, who will publish a much awaited 'competitiveness report', says that the €zone crisis 'competitiveness strategy' (austerity and downward wage pressure) was bad as it reduced domestic demand, deepened the crisis and undermined the social model.

To make war safer, make peace safer.

In my Georgetown University lecture I argued that as conflicts spread and worsen, we must seek solutions far beyond the battlefields in the realms of aid & development, governance, and institutional legitimacy.

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🚨 Launch day is finally here for my new book, GROWTH: A RECKONING! Very excited to discuss the ideas in the weeks to come. 🚨

Traduction anglaise de Martin Mittelmeier - Naples 1925

Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory

À paraître en novembre aux Yale UP

Prof. O’Brien helped codify the idea of “just war.' The task now is to shrink conflict back to an absolute minimum and bolster humanitarian & legal systems around it. I look forward to delivering the O'Brien Lecture on Monday at Georgetown University on this & more shorturl.at/afiS5

My latest column for the Financial Times is about a type of model that is infiltrating central banks around the world

Researchers in the Fed, the ECB and the BoE are working to incorporate inequality into models of how the economy works

Let me introduce you to HANK

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Our competitive Applied AI in Journalism Challenge sought to advance prototype applications of artificial intelligence in mission-driven newsrooms worldwide. Learn more with details of the winning proposals: opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/o…

FREE AND EQUAL is out in paperback in the UK TODAY!

What a year it's been 🤩

The paperback includes a new Afterword ‘From What to How?’, about turning ideas into a political movement for change ✊

1/9 Honoured for my essay to appear in Hal Brands’s brilliant collection on the war in Ukraine, alongside contributions by Anne Applebaum, Lawrence Freedman, Michael McFaul, Michael Kofman, Kori Schake 🌻🇺🇦 @kschake.bsky.social, Dara Massicot, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and many others. Available here for free. muse.jhu.edu/book/122782

Public investment in lagging regions reduces support for right-wing populist parties by 15- 20%, on average, that is 2 -3 % points. It increases trust in democratic institutions and reduces discontent with EU. New paper:

“World #RomaDay has a moral significance beyond the Roma sphere: it serves as an example of non-violent resilience in the face of adversity,” writes romaforeurope’s Zeljko Jovanovic: bit.ly/43Qoph2

Zeitenwende illustrated: The first German soldiers making up the preparatory unit of the Lithuania Brigade just arrived at Vilnius airport. It’s the first time that Germany is stationing soldiers abroad permanently since the end of World War II.

Best day in Berlin when the pedestrians, bedazzled by the cherry blossoms, assume control of the streets

'Lose that cultural freedom and you lose much more than a 'scene.' You lose the very ground — the ground of sympathetic imagination — upon which you combat antisemitism and all other forms of bigotry.' < v good, this, by Jason Farago

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Péter Magyar, ex-husband of Judit Varga and an Orbán loyalist on government payroll until a few months ago, is disrupting Hungarian politics and building a new opposition movement. He has the momentum, and a huge hype around him. For now, however, he looks more dangerous to…

1. Excited to share that I am starting a podcast about how sanctions are changing the world.

The Sanctions Age invites the people who understand sanctions best—scholars, lawyers, policymakers, and journalists—to explain their use and significance.

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Tens of thousands of Hungarians, led by former gov insider Péter Magyar, protested against Orbán’s leadership today.

My story from Budapest, mostly typed on my phone sitting on the ground in front of parliament as Magyar addressed the vast crowd:
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