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How corona broke the system

The corona crisis sends shockwaves through political, economic and social systems. The status quo simply cannot continue

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Global quarantine

How do other countries react to the outbreak of the coronavirus? Dispatches from Russia, Vietnam and Argentina

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The corona crisis will define our era

The pandemic has highlighted the frailties of a short-sighted and hyper-individualistic social system

By Karin Pettersson

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A great equaliser

The coronavirus is reminding some of the world’s privileged what it is like to experience daily stigmas

By Branko Milanović

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How the 21st century left thinks about economic democracy

Instead of top-down state socialist models, the new left asks how we can build a pluralist ecosystem of democratic ownership

By Christine Berry

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Moving on from Trump's plan for the Middle East

The international community needs to counter Trump's so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ with its own peace initiative

By Nimrod Goren

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Why we need ‘Fridays for Keynesianism’

Unlike neoclassical economics, Keynes recognised the key role of the financial system in modern capitalist economies

By Peter Bofinger

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Why AI will not abolish work

Without new ways of fairly distributing paid and unpaid work, technologies such as AI could bring about a highly divided world

By Andrea Komlosy

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The myth of middle-class liberalism

The bourgeois are supposed to ensure open, democratic societies. In fact, historically they rarely have

By David Motadel

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The EU's toothless trade policy

The EU Commission fails to enforce trade agreements' social and environmental norms. Just look at the case of South Korea

By Miriam-Lena Horn