For decades, the VAT has been a cornerstone of tax systems worldwide, providing governments with a stable source of revenue and fiscal flexibility. But in many countries, it has not replaced lost ...

Peter Singer & Sankalpa Ghose welcome recent bipartisan moves by US authorities to phase out a cruel, costly, and ineffective practice.

As the International Maritime Organization gathers to adopt its Net-Zero Framework, which includes a binding emissions-pricing mechanism, it must begin thinking about how to distribute the resulting ...

Sankalpa Ghose, the founder of OpenTelemed.org, is currently a Ph.D. student and President’s Graduate Fellow in the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore.

Ana Palacio thinks the continent's need to improve and expand its defense capabilities has become existential.

Tushara Surapaneni calls on global leaders to uphold international humanitarian law, which protects access to health care.

Tushara Surapaneni, an emergency medicine physician and instructor at the Yale School of Medicine, is a fellow of The OpEd Project.

Ian Buruma explains why US President Donald Trump views comedians who mock him as a threat that must be neutralized.

Despite mounting economic and demographic pressures, Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue to feed the war machine so long as he gains ground in Ukraine. To change his calculus, Western ...

Even if Hamas is ultimately “defeated" in Gaza, the blow it has dealt to Israel amounts to a psychological victory that will ...

US President Donald Trump’s total war on his political opponents, announced with his paper-thin indictment of former FBI ...

Corey Klemmer take aim at a proposal by US regulators to loosen systemically important banks' equity requirements.