Public Commentary

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2023. “Binance and the End of Crypto’s Dream to Escape from Government,” The Wall Street Journal. November 24.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2023. “The New Economic Security State:How De-risking will remake geopolitics,” Foreign Affairs. November/December

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2023. “What if these Economic Weapons Fall into Trump’s Hands? The New York Times. Oct 11.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2023. “What Happens When Tech Bros RunNational Security,” Time. September 20.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2023. “How a single hard-charging CEO helped the US dollar take over the world,” Business Insider. September 12.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2023. “How the US Stumbled into Using Chips as a Weapon Against China,” The Wall Street Journal, September 8.

Farrell, Henry, Abraham Newman, and Jeremy Wallace, 2022. “Spirals of Delusion: How AI distorts decision-making,” Foreign Affairs, August 31

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2022. “The US is the only sanctions superpower: It must use that power wisely,” New York Times, March 16.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2020. “Schrems II offers an Opportunity – If they US wants to take it,” Lawfare. July 28.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2020. “This is What the Future of Globalization will Look Like.” Foreign Policy. July 4.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2020. “The Folly of Decoupling from China,” Foreign Affairs. June 3. 2020.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2020. “Will Governments Restrict Foreign Access to Pandemic Supplies,” Harvard Business Review, March 23, 2020.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2020. “Will the Coronavirus End Globalization as we know it?” Foreign Affairs. March 16, 2020.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2020. “The Twilight of America’s Financial Empire,” Foreign Affairs. January 24.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2020. “Choke Points: Countries are turning economic infrastructure into political weapons, and that poses a major risk to business.” Harvard Business Review. January/February Print Issue.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2020. “Chained to Globalization: Why it’s too late to decouple,” Foreign Affairs. January/February Print Issue.

Newman, Abraham and Daniel Nexon. 2019. “If the United States Doesn’t make the Rules, China Will,” Foreign Policy, November 17.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2019. “Huawei and the Emerging Battle over 5G Networks,” Global Asia, September 26.

Newman, Abraham. 2019. “US and China are Weaponizing Global Trade Networks,” Financial Times, September 1.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2019. “America’s Misuse of its Financial Infrastructure,” The National Interest, May/June.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2019. “By Punishing Iran, Trump is Weakening America.” Foreign Policy, April 24.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2018. “The Huawei arrest made the stock market tank. Trump may not even have known about it.” Washington Post,  Monkey Cage, December 7.

Farrell, Henry and Abraham Newman. 2018. “The Wrong Way to Punish Iran,” New York Times, November 1.

Newman, Abraham. 2018. “Trump’s Feud with Europe is Worse than You Think,” Politico, July 11.

“Here’s how Europe’s data privacy law could take down Facebook,” with Henry Farrell.  Washington Post, Monkey Cage, May 25, 2018.

“Today, a new EU law transforms privacy rights for everyone. Without Edward Snowden, it might never have happened,” with Nikhil Kalyanpur, Washington Post, Monkey Cage, May 25, 2018.

“Trump’s U-turn on Chinese mega-firm ZTE damages US power and credibility,”with Henry Farrell, Washington Post, Monkey Cage, May 14, 2018.

“Trump doesn’t like China’s economic nationalism. So why is his administration stirring it up?” with Henry Farrell and Can Huang Washington Post, Monkey Cage, April 24, 2018.

“Forget Congress: Facebook’s real problem is in Europe.” with Henry Farrell, Washington Post, Monkey Cage, April 12, 2018.

“Trump won’t allow you to use iPads or laptops on certain airlines. Here’s why,” with Henry Farrell, Washington Post, Monkey Cage, March 21, 2017.

“France’s National Front Scandal has Exposed the Dirty Little Secret of Europe’s Far Right,” with Henry Farrell, Washington Post, Monkey Cage, February 23, 2017.

“Trump says American Allies Should Pay More on Defense. Here’s Why He’s Wrong,” with Dan Nexon, Vox, February 16, 2017.

“This is how Trump Might Take on China – If he doesn’t shoot himself in the foot first,” with Loriana Crasnic and Nikhil Kalyanpur, Washington Post, Monkey Cage, December 20, 2016.

“Britain Wants a Sweetheart Deal After Brexit. Fat chance Germany will give it one.” Washington Post, Monkey Cage, June 24, 2016.

“After Safe Harbor: Bridging the EU-US Data-Privacy Divide,” World Politics Review. February 9, 2016.

“Transatlantic Privacy Shield Could Yet Be Pierced,” Financial Times. February 2, 2016.

“The Transatlantic Data War: Europe Fights Back Against the NSA,” with Henry Farrell. Foreign Affairs. January. 2016.

“U.S. Law Plays Offense Overseas,” Washington Post, Monkey Cage, May 31, 2015.

“Forget Me Not: What the EU’s New Internet Privacy Ruling Means for the United States,” with Henry Farrell. ForeignAffairs.com. May 19, 2014.

“Privacy Pretense: How Silicon Valley Helped the NSA,” ForeignAffairs.com. November 6, 2013.

“Senseless Spying: The NSA’s self-defeating espionage against the EU,” with Henry Farrell. ForeignAffairs.com. July 10. 2013

“Austerity and the End of the European Model,” ForeignAffairs.com. May 1. 2012.

“The Greek Haircut and Europe’s Shared Responsibility,” ForeignAffairs.com. November 15. 2011.

“Time for a New European Politics of Solidarity,” DeutscheWelle.de. August 25. 2011.

“Europe’s Parliament Takes a Stand,” with Henry Farrell.  Foreign Policy.Com. February 26. 2010.

“Transatlantic Cooperation and Conflict over Data Privacy Rules: Lessons for international market regulation,” Report to the German Marshall Fund. March 2007.