Middle East/North AfricaErdogan's Syria faux pas The Turkish president has taken miscalculated steps in Syria. A rapprochement with the West now seems the only option By Ilhan Uzgel
AsiaThe COVID-19 debt deluge The pandemic may have already set the stage for a debt meltdown, starting in Asia's emerging and developing economies By Jayati Ghosh
GlobalThe corona crisis will define our era The pandemic has highlighted the frailties of a short-sighted and hyper-individualistic social system By Karin Pettersson
Future of social democracy‘Never Trump’ Republicans will support Biden, not Sanders Right-of-centre voters are open to voting for a moderate Democrat. They have been helping one in the primaries By Sarah Longwell
EuropePutin: President in perpetuity? Putin's constitutional coup ensures that he could remain in power until 2036. But Russia's young generation wants change By Peer Teschendorf
EuropeCan the EU create a powerful sanctions regime? An EU version of the Magnitsky Act would be a demonstration of global leadership against human rights abuses By Loraine Rickard-Martin, Jedrzej Nowe
Interviews'Democratic capitalism became synonymous with modernity' Ivan Krastev on the end of the Age of Imitation in Europe's East and the roots of a new post-populist liberalism
North AmericaPresident Trump is unfit for this crisis. Period. The coronavirus is no longer just a public health crisis. It’s a crisis of transparency and government legitimacy By Jennifer Senior
