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Economy and ecology

Betting on the wrong horse

Voluntary price caps mask a long-term failure to fix today’s affordability crisis; the real issue is access, not checkout prices

By Carolina Alves

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Foreign and security policy

Twilight of the hegemon

Trump’s war with Iran was intended to weaken Tehran. Instead, it has ended in a geopolitical debacle for Washington

By Marcus Schneider

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Future of social democracy

Fewer rights, bigger profits

Flexible labour markets often mean fragile lives — and weaker economies

By Veronica Nilsson

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Work and digitalisation

God vs Google

If the Pope speaks more clearly than most governments on AI, politics has a problem

By Marc Frings

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Economy and ecology

The state is back in business

The challenge for governments is no longer whether to intervene in the economy — but how to do it when the future is unpredictable

By Yuen Yuen Ang

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Work and digitalisation

The tech workers building AI are scared of it, too

Their grievances need to be heard — society’s ability to shape artificial intelligence may depend on it

By Kate Andrias

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Democracy and society

Against the age of cynicism

From Trump to climate breakdown, the future looks bleak. But it is this despair that can become a force for change

By Chiara Cordelli

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Foreign and security policy

Can the US afford to leave NATO?

NATO may no longer suit America’s neo-isolationists — but leaving the Alliance would exact a price history has yet to calculate

By Nickolay Kapitonenko

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Foreign and security policy

Fear of the unarrived

Europe braces for fallout as the Middle East war fuels displacement — and revives fears of another migration ‘crisis’

By Daniel Harper

Foreign and security policy

Who will save the UN?

The election of the next UN Secretary-General is just around the corner. The future of the entire organisation will be determined by the outcome

By Matthias Jobelius