When Vladimir Putin revives Stalin-era repression tactics, he does not do so in service of some lofty ideology or grand project. Rather, he and his security apparatus are seeking to safeguard their own power indefinitely—and, as Russians well know, they will stop at nothing to succeed.
Individuals may fail to recall and use information they already know when making decisions. We empirically investigate whether such “retrieval failures” distort consumption smoothing behavior among Zambian farmers, who derive their income from one annual harvest and then spend it down over the course of the year. We document that individuals underestimate upcoming spending by…
Image: Canva Studio/Pexels The third in a series of extracts from Global Government Forum’s new study on future-proofing digital capability examines how a level of digital capability is now needed by all civil servants, not just technical staff, and how governments are working to achieve this Governments are moving from treating digital as a technical…
Ferrari SF90 XX Spider limited edition plug in hybrid supercar parked on the pavement as a red Ferrari passes on Bond Street on 4th January 2026 in London, United Kingdom. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images Ferrari is bumping up its 2026 guidance after beating Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations amid healthy demand for…
With inaccurate claims about Black Americans’ poverty and crime rates having migrated from the far-right fringe to mainstream outlets like the Wall Street Journal, it is worth considering what the data actually say. Doing so will show that there is no empirical basis for such claims, only an ideological one. STANFORD—After the right-wing influencer Charlie…
Poverty not the same as inequality beng Thu, 08/06/2026 – 08:23 EST. READ TIME 4 MIN. The Fraser Institute has published substantial work on both poverty and inequality, culminating in the major volume Towards a Better Understanding of Income Inequality in Canada (2017). A number of essays and commentaries have since been published updating particular…
en English Economics Jul 16, 2026 Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan Debates about geopolitical fragmentation always revive the late economist Robert Mundell’s dream of a single world money. But participants should be mindful of the euro’s real-world experience over the past quarter-century. ROME—The…
MOSCOW—In the early 1950s, a group of prominent, mostly Jewish doctors from Moscow was accused of plotting to assassinate Soviet leaders on orders from the West. The accused were fired from their jobs, arrested, and tortured. But after Joseph Stalin died in 1953, Lavrenty Beria—one of Stalin’s longest-serving secret police chiefs, who oversaw the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) in 1938–45 and spent decades filling the Gulags—called off the investigation. As it turned out, the security services had made the whole thing up.