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'I want to empower young women'

Armenian MP Lilit Makunts on being a young woman politician in a conservative society like Armenia

Reuters

Realistic and fair immigration

The leader of the Danish Social Democrats on an immigration policy to unite Denmark

By Mette Frederiksen

Reuters

A matter of identity

Image, populism and polarisation were at the forefront in the complex elections held in Indonesia last month

By Sergio Grassi

Reuters

'Civil war is possible'

Left-wing intellectual Edgardo Lander on the political crisis in Venezuela, the role of the US and the left's failure to learn

Reuters

The trilemma of Big Tech

We can have democracy, market dominance and business models that optimise for anger and junk — but only two at a time

By Karin Pettersson

Reuters

How social protection can empower women

Apart from employment opportunities, women need social support that accounts for the true extent of their responsibilities

By Phakama Ntshongwana and Nicola Ansell and Keetie Roelen

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A new style of politics

How social media creates politicians' images and influences elections: the case of Volodymyr Zelenskiy

By Georgii Pocheptsov

Pexels

Output gap nonsense

How misleading statistics have led to terrible economic policy-making in the EU since 2008

Reuters

The US: An ‘Empire in Retreat’

In his new book, Victor Bulmer-Thomas argues that the US needs to accept its imperial decline and reinvent itself

By Paul Hockenos

Reuters

Suicide of a democracy

Benin has long served as a democratic model for Africa. But its latest elections hint at a creeping decline

By Hans-Joachim Preuss