Publicada originalmente el 17/11/2016 en LA Network. Igual que en el entorno de las enfermedades terminales, el paciente puede considerarse una víctima y asumir el crítico estado de su salud como una derrota irremediable. O, por el contrario, encontrar que la enfermedad es una oportunidad para luchar, sin pretender desconocerRead More

Comenzamos hoy una serie de entrevistas a académicos que se desempeñan o desempeñaron en la función pública. Alejandro Gaviria Uribe es Ministro de Salud y Protección Social de Colombia. Intelectual, Doctor en Economía, fue decano de la escuela de economía de la Universidad de los Andes, Director de Fedesarrollo eRead More

By David Cutler. Published on November 12th on The Washington Post. President-elect Donald Trump is already signaling that he might backpedal on his promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, telling the Wall Street Journal Friday that he’d consider hanging onto popular Obamacare provisions such as “the prohibition against insurers denyingRead More

By Dylan Matthews. Published on November 9th on Vox. The white working class turned out, and they struck back. The morning after, that already appears to be the dominant media narrative coming out of the 2016 presidential election. Sure, the black and Latino voters that Hillary Clinton was counting onRead More

By Jeffrey Frankel. Published on November 10th on Project Syndicate. Donald Trump’s stunning election victory has pushed the United States – and the world – into uncharted territory. The US has never before had a president with no political or military experience, nor one who so routinely shirks the truth,Read More

Por Joseph E. Stiglitz. Publicada el 14/10/2016 en Project Syndicate. NUEVA YORK – En los viajes que realicé por todo el mundo durante las últimas semanas me pidieron, repetidamente, que responda dos preguntas: ¿es concebible que Donald Trump podría llegar a ganar la presidencia de Estados Unidos?; y, en primerRead More

By Joshua Tucker. Published on June 30th on The Washington Post. Despite the results of the Brexit referendum, some are still questioning whether Britain will actually leave the European Union. At the moment, no one knows for what sure will happen, especially given the current chaotic state of British politics, and this postRead More