Ian Bremmer

1 day ago | gzeromedia.com | Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: I want to talk about checks and balances in the US political system. I get so many questions about this of course, because the United States today is the principal driver of geopolitical uncertainty, of global economic uncertainty. And people want to understand, is this the end of globalization? Is it the end of US democracy? Everyone has their knobs politically turned up to 11 on everything, and that's very undifferentiated. So, how do we think about this?

1 day ago | gzeromedia.com | Ian Bremmer

Welcome to another edition of my mailbag, where I attempt to make sense of our increasingly chaotic world, one reader question at a time. If you have a burning question for me before I go back to full-length columns, ask it here and I’ll answer as many as I can in next week’s newsletter. Let’s dive in (with questions lightly edited for clarity).

2 days ago | gzeromedia.com | Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: Hey everybody. Ian Bremmer here and a Quick Take to kick off your week. I'm here at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, with my buddy Steve Walt. Stephen Walt: Nice to see you, Ian. Ian Bremmer:And kind of ground zero for a lot of things happening geopolitically right now. How does it feel to be an independent variable?

1 week ago | gzeromedia.com | Ian Bremmer

If you feel like you're drowning in the 24-hour news tsunami lately, you're not alone. Headlines are moving at the speed of light, massively consequential policies are being announced (then rolled back) via social media, and longstanding global alliances seem to shift with each passing day. It's hard enough just trying to keep up, let alone separate the signal from the noise.

1 week ago | time.com | Ian Bremmer

In 2023, candidate Javier Milei offered himself to voters as the antiestablishment, chainsaw-wielding bolt from the blue that Argentina needed to tame the country’s chronic inflation and government dysfunction. Twenty months later, the doubters—I was one of them—are in retreat. Since Milei entered the Casa Rosada as President, voters have punished elected leaders and ruling parties in India, South Africa, France, Britain, Japan, Germany, and the U.S.—in part because prices have risen.