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Debt and development
Break the taboos propping up unsustainable debt, pleads a former central banker
Murtaza Syed on overcoming fear of restructuring, cajoling creditors and encouraging the IMF to be candid
Artificial intelligence
Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on why Europe should embrace open-source AI
It risks falling behind because of incoherent and complex regulation, say the two tech CEOs
American politics
Kamala Harris must define herself before Donald Trump does it for her
High on her list should be wooing older, less-educated white women, says Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster
Economic development
Indermit Gill on what China and India must do to join the rich club
First invest, then infuse foreign technology and then innovate, says the World Bank’s chief economist
Crime in Latin America
Use incentives, not brute force, on the cartels, says a political scientist
Benjamin Lessing reckons they can be peacefully coerced into reducing violence
Bangladesh
Bangladesh has achieved its second liberation, says Muhammad Yunus
The interim government’s new leader argues for releasing political prisoners and holding a free election
Unrest in Britain
Margaret Hodge’s lessons from east London on countering the far right
Mainstream parties must win back white working-class voters by focusing on local issues, says the former Labour MP
Venezuela
The real winner of Venezuela’s election urges the regime to face facts
A peaceful transfer of power is still possible, says Edmundo González
Thai politics
Thailand’s thwarted election winner on the move to ban his party
Weaponising the courts to muzzle dissent will fail in the long run, says Pita Limjaroenrat
Artificial intelligence
Keep the code behind AI open, say two entrepreneurs
Martin Casado and Ion Stoica argue that open-source models will power innovation without compromising security
Artificial intelligence
Not all AI models should be freely available, argues a legal scholar
The more capable they are, the greater the risk of catastrophe, reckons Lawrence Lessig
The state of Britain
Neil Kinnock on the post-war-like challenges facing Keir Starmer
A lack of social cohesion compared with 1945 makes them even more daunting, says the former Labour leader and Starmer confidant