EuropeSmokescreens and sell-offs Portugal’s centre-left government promised an end to austerity two years ago. So why are so many Portuguese still feeling the pinch? By Miguel Szymanski
EuropeState of the nations Without intending to do so, the European Union has fuelled separatism and made independence a more attractive prospect By Matthias Bieri
Latin AmericaSocial programmes, not soldiers, are what's needed in Brazil Brazil’s President has put the military in charge of Rio de Janeiro. Is this an attempt to deflect attention from the nation’s wider problems? By Katharina De Moura Hofmann, Thomas Manz
GlobalHow not to save the world Geoengineering technologies that fail to curb global warming are making a dangerous comeback in the climate debate By Andreas Sieber
North AmericaDemocrats vs Democrats Why the US Democrats are standing in their own way in the congressional elections, despite a good chance of success By Thomas Greven
EuropeIn praise of the nation Why progressives can’t leave civic patriotism and the nation state to right-wing populists By Michael Bröning
EuropeThe fourth way As politics tends to the right, the left alliance in Portugal could be an example to the rest of Europe By Reinhard Naumann
GlobalA woman’s work 100 years after many women in Europe won the right to vote, Drude Dahlerup, author of Has Democracy Failed Women, explains the challenges that remain in the search for equal representation By Drude Dahlerup
