Once able to rely on larger-than-life finance ministers, the region’s business leaders now need to make the public case for free markets via retail politics.

The pandemic is where simple narratives go to die. Most of the predictions that people made a year ago have turned out to be false. Democracies did not systematically do better than dictatorships…

Forget all the talk about the region’s “pink tide” and focus on which candidate is most likely to lift the greatest number of boats.

This is the first time since World War II that there may be no cooperative way out.

Current History, Volume 122, Issue 841: 69-74