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Who should control India’s central bank?

The Indian government is challenging the Reserve Bank of India's independence for all the wrong reasons

By Jayati Ghosh

Kate Holt/Africa Practice

Globalisation 4.0 for whom?

If world leaders finally abandon toxic neoliberalism, globalisation can be managed in a way that benefits everyone

By Winnie Byanyima

Reuters

A never ending story

Mirco Günther in Kabul on Germany's continued engagement in Afghanistan

By Mirco Günther

Reuters

The Republicans go full authoritarian

Only Trump’s flamboyant awfulness stands in the way of his party’s power grab

By Paul Krugman

Reuters

EU turn

Instead of merciless competition, Europe needs a social union to create solidarity

By Susanne Wixforth and Lukas Hochscheidt

Reuters

Beyond the anti-women backlash

How we can understand women’s support for the right in Poland and Hungary

By Weronika Grzebalska and Eszter Kováts

Reuters

The political roots of falling wage growth

It's neither trade nor technology that causes low wages. It's the political project of neoliberalism

By Jayati Ghosh

Andrea Schaffer / Flickr

The municipalist revolution

Naples shows how local democracy can defy the neoliberal paradigm

By Eleonora de Majo

Wikimedia Commons

The return of nuclear thinking

The US's planned withdrawal from the INF Treaty threatens to trigger a new nuclear arms race in Europe

By Rolf Mützenich

Reuters

The left’s Stockholm syndrome

Why it's an illusion to believe that the European Union can be democratised