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'The 2020 election was hugely significant'

Aidan Regan on the historic realignment in Irish politics — and the prospects and challenges of the potential new government

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'If we want to change anything in Europe, we have to start in Berlin'

Germany's left-wing politician Katja Kipping on new progressive majorities, austerity and the post-Covid-19 society

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'First global crisis in which false information can spread worldwide'

With Covid-19 came the conspiracy theorists. Julia Ebner, an extremism researcher, on the threat they pose on- and offline

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'They are strong because we as liberals are weak'

Jan Zielonka on whether the outbreak of the coronavirus could help illiberal, populist and nationalist forces

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'The working class is incredibly pluralist now'

Simon Hix on the rise and fall of social democracy in the last 100 years — and how social-democratic parties can still win

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'The real division is between democracy and oligarchy'

Former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on the methods of the big corporations, citizens' anger and how to beat Trump

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‘This is a different type of crisis’

George Papaconstantinou, Greek Minister of Finance when the Eurocrisis began in 2010, on the EU response then and now

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'Human beings have evolved to be friendly'

Historian Rutger Bregman on panic buying, penguins, Norwegian prisons and what really matters in today's world

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'Inheritance for all'

Economist Thomas Piketty on recipes against inequality, the success of the right and a lavish one-off payment for everyone

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'People of all countries want a world without nuclear weapons'

Austrian diplomat Alexander Kmentt on the outdated dogma of nuclear deterrence and other means of achieving security