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Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, published an article in NBC.

Putin’s immediate challenge is to deal with Navalny and the protests, but the broader and more difficult challenge will be to change the deeper currents driving opposition.

Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, published an opinion in Project Syndicate and The Guadian.

Joe Biden's $1.9tn recovery package is vital – but we can debate the detail

The US president's proposed $1.9 trillion recovery package will provide enormous stimulus to the economy. The economic growth that results will generate substantial tax revenues, not just for the federal government but also for the states and municipalities that are now starved of the funds they need to provide essential services.

The GameStop stock situation isn’t about populism. It’s about whether the market is ‘real.’

Harrison Hong, the John R. Eckel, Jr. Professor of Financial Economics and Executive Director of the Program for Economic Research, was quoted in the Washington Post.

Do you think value in the market is merely socially constructed or an efficient, working system that follows certain rules and trends?

Consensus or chaos? Pandemic response hinges on trust, experts say

Wilmot James, Senior Research Scholar at ISERP, was quoted in Devex.

Trust is a key reason for the wide variance in how countries have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic, determining why some have succeeded in containing the virus while others have failed, according to new research on responses across 23 countries...