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Stories by Eric Posner for Project Syndicate

Published:Wednesday | February 7, 2024 | 7:39 AMEric Posner for Project Syndicate

CHICAGO: This week, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision disqualifying him from the ballot for the 2024 presidential election. The Colorado court based its...

Published:Wednesday | January 10, 2024 | 8:25 AMEric Posner for Project Syndicate

CHICAGO: With long-gestating antitrust cases against Google, Apple, and Amazon coming to fruition, many observers think that 2024 could be a turning point for Big Tech. Yet even as authorities press ahead with this litigation, they risk being...

Published:Wednesday | December 13, 2023 | 5:49 AMEric Posner for Project Syndicate

CHICAGO: Americans have worried about their presidents becoming dictators (or, in the old days, tyrants) ever since the United States was founded. The framers of the US Constitution understood that in classical democracies and republics, leaders...

Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2023 | 8:37 AMEric Posner for Project Syndicate

CHICAGO: A new legal effort to prevent Donald Trump from retaking the presidency next year is afoot. Its backers rely on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, which bars from office anyone who has “engaged in...

Published:Wednesday | June 21, 2023 | 8:15 AMEric Posner for Project Syndicate

CHICAGO: The indictment of a former president is unprecedented in the United States. But Americans – and the world – should get used to it. It was only a matter of time before a US president or former president found himself in legal...

Published:Tuesday | November 9, 2021 | 10:46 PMEric Posner for Project Syndicate, A Digital Integration & Marketing production

CHICAGO – “The ugly American,” the title of a novel published in 1958 by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, entered the language to refer to boorish American officials abroad who sought to improve the lives of natives without...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2021 | 7:40 AMEric Posner for Project Syndicate, A Digital Integration & Marketing production

CHICAGO – A recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal exposes the dark hole into which conservative economic thinking has sunk since the pinnacle of its influence in the 1980s. Economists Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson of the...

Published:Tuesday | March 16, 2021 | 11:18 PMEric Posner for Project Syndicate

CHICAGO – President Joe Biden is signalling that his administration will get tough on monopoly. With the appointments of Columbia University law professors Timothy Wu to the White House National Economic Council and Lina Khan to the Federal...

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