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Democracy and society

Kyiv’s great re-shuffle

Ukraine’s top power shift signals deep securitisation and a careful balancing of rivals as the war enters a volatile phase

By Balázs Jarábik

picture alliance / REUTERS | Tuane Fernandes

Foreign and security policy

The show must go on

The absence of the president and the first lady shows that Venezuela is not a one-man dictatorship and never has been

By Anja Dargatz

picture alliance/dpa | Sven Hoppe

Democracy and society

Fewer walls, more bridges

Calls for firewalls against the far right overlook a key truth: democracy is defended through debate, not isolation

By Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf

Canva/IPS

Future of social democracy

Universalism is a dream

But not an impossible one

By Kaushik Basu

Pexels

Democracy and society

The year that could be

Hope no longer dazzles. Its power lies in persistence, in acting as if change is possible

By Lea Ypi

picture alliance / IPON | Stefan Boness

Economy and ecology

A moonshot in retreat

Once heralded as Europe’s man on the moon moment, the Green Deal now wavers under political compromise and legal uncertainty

By Daniel Harper

picture alliance / ZUMAPRESS.com | Cristobal Basaure Araya

Democracy and society

Fear over vision

José Antonio Kast sweeps to victory, riding a wave of frustration and deep distrust toward the ruling left

By Cäcilie Schildberg

Canva/IPS

Interviews

‘This is a problem with a solution’

The super-rich often escape taxation. Economist Gabriel Zucman explains why and how a minimum tax could fix it