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North America

Elizabeth Warren’s bold ideas don’t go far enough

What America needs are policies to shape the direction of technological development and restore workers' bargaining power

By Daron Acemoglu

Reuters

Interviews

'Driven by the same fear'

What's going on in France? Luc Rouban on common causes of left and right-wing protests and the role of Macron

Reuters

North America

Trump’s bad. Sadly, he’s not alone

How Washington's climate of confusion and cynicism allows Trump to prosper

By Maureen Dowd

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North America

GDP is broken, but we can fix it

The statistics keep on rising, but they don’t track the well-being of most Americans. It's time for an adjustment

By David Leonhardt

Reuters

Interviews

‘An unpredictable player’

Established parties are still struggling to deal with Germany's right-wing populists. A conversation with Wolfgang Schroeder

Reuters

Future of social democracy

If wealth is justified, so is a wealth tax

US billionaires have dismissed wealth-tax proposals. But they only gained wealth because of legal subsidies from the state

By Katharina Pistor

Reuters

Global

'A sharp vision of a digital social-democratic state'

Elizabeth Warren's plan of breaking up big tech isn't left-wing. Evgeny Morozov on a real vision for digital leftist politics

By Evgeny Morozov

Reuters

Latin America

Mexico's recentralisation of power

Even under the leftist government, violence is soaring. President López Obrador relies on the military and centralised power

By Sandra Weiss