JP Singh
Washington, D.C.
As seen in:
MSN,
The Washington Post,
Yahoo Canada,
Aol,
The Hill,
Yahoo,
The Wire (India),
Project Syndicate,
The Manila Times,
Carnegie Europe
and
Covers:
political economy (trade, development), global governance and multilateralism, technology (especially ICTs for development and AI), and cultural politics and policy (including the arts).
JP Singh’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridA vengeful Trump props up the unproductive as his economy falls apart
The Hill
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Trump is bringing a wrecking ball to the U.S. economy.
Trump's assault on universities is a war on thinking
The Hill
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Trump he threatens the academic freedoms underpinning the strengths of liberal arts, science and intellectual achievement in America.
Trump's tariffs are bad economics, bad politics and unconstitutional
The Hill
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Trump's use of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act for tariffs was unprecedented.
Can India and Pakistan overcome their violent history?
The Hill
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The lesson is not that neighbors do not fight, but that at interpersonal levels, people often choose not to fight, even when pressured the other way.
What Trump will never understand about the Kennedy Center
The Hill
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Two instances, one involving an "avant-garde" program and the other a traditional one, provide counterpoints to Trump's unpolished maneuvers at the Center.
3 things Trump does well in tariff negotiations, and 3 things he doesn't get
The Hill
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Thucydides' maxim from the 5th century B.C. that "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" seems to be the core of President Trump's negotiating strategy.
Trump is getting trade history and economics all wrong
The Hill
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Uncompetitive sectors of U.S. manufacturing did not decline because the rest of the world ripped off America. They declined because America ripped off the rest of the world and lost its competitiveness via protectionism.
US Republicans lost in Germany's elections
The Hill
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American election meddling did not boost the far-right AfD's prospects.
Lessons in foreign aid from a trip to Uganda
The Hill
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When President Trump and Elon Mask brought the shutters down on USAID, I was reminded of things I had seen and heard in Uganda last month while conducting development research there - things that should make us rethink stereotypes about foreign aid and its effectiveness.
Trump's tariffs are economic nonsense, but far-right culture war catnip
The Hill
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The "cult of Bismarck" in Germany is instructive on the cultural basis of Trump's tariffs and, relatedly, cultural nationalism devoid of an economic rationale.
What left-wing intellectuals don't understand about Trump's victory
The Hill
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In this left vision, the workers are half stupid - they know what to abandon, but don't understand what they adopt when voting Republican.