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Capitalism and democracy: what if we have it backwards?

It's fashionable on the left to suggest that capitalism and democracy are now incompatible. But maybe the opposite is true

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Review of ‘For a Left Populism’

In this book, political scientist Chantal Mouffe argues that populism could be the only way to reinvigorate a faltering left

By Paul Hockenos

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Of trolls, tragedies and conspiracies

What Nick Drnaso’s graphic novel Sabrina reveals about the dark mood of the Trump Era

By Thomas Greven

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Review of ‘The Decline of the West’ by Joschka Fischer

The former German foreign minister offers a keen analysis of the West’s dilemmas – complex, alarming, but not without hope

By Paul Hockenos

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'Globalization and its Discontents Revisited'

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says workers and citizens are missing out on the benefits of globalisation

By Paul Hockenos

EPA

Review of 'Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams' by John Feffer

Twenty-five years after fall of communism, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe – a region plagued by political and social divisions

By Paul Hockenos

EPA

Dear Mr Trump: please read this book

Paul Hockenos' 'Berlin Calling' reveals the truth about living behind a wall – from Bowie's bohemia to neo-Nazi clashes

By Emma Bullimore