Vaccine apartheid

An every-country-for-itself approach is irrational during a pandemic. And yet, that is exactly what many countries have done

By Jayati Ghosh

The rise of right-wing nationalism

Donald Trump may have lost the US elections. But the conditions that brought authoritarians like him to power still persist

By Karin Pettersson

The global reaction to the US elections

Trump is out, Biden is in — so how are friends and foes reacting? Dispatches from China, Russia, Great Britain and Brazil

We finally need to involve women to build lasting peace

It takes more than just UN resolutions to protect women from the violence of war and involve them in peace-making

By Anja Papenfuss

The rise of regionalism

With an international order under pressure, regional diplomacy is offering a chance to pursue mutually beneficial cooperation

By Michael J. Oghia

The end of a beauty pageant for investors

The World Bank's Doing Business Index was manipulated to push neoliberal policies. Now it will finally be discontinued

By Helmut Reisen

Deglobalisation could be an opportunity for EU-Africa cooperation

As the pandemic reinforces a trend towards regional production, the EU and Africa should advance a new social contract

By Manfred Öhm and Henrik Maihack

How to move forward

How progressives can build effective political coalitions to reverse the populist victories since the financial crisis

By Sheri Berman

The climate blueprint that Europe’s social democrats didn’t write

The US democratic socialists' Green New Deal is the vision that Europe’s Social Democrats should have drafted 20 years ago

By Paul Hockenos