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This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. Subscribe to get a copy. The year 2014 was a heady moment in the economic policy world. That spring, French ...

I live in Beirut in an area called the Corniche that runs along the edge of the American University of Beirut. The word, which comes from the French corniche, meaning “ledge,” refers to a road on a ...

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Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...

Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., president of Just Foreign Policy, and author of Failed: What the “Experts” Got Wrong About the Global ...

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