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Reuters

Democracy and society

Back to normality?

Countries with high vaccination rates are slowly lifting all restrictions. Is this the return to normality? Dispatches from the UK, Israel and the US

By Christos Katsioulis , Micky Drill , Knut Dethlefsen

PXhere

Democracy and society

Why we need experts

With social media, echo chambers are increasingly replacing nuanced debate. But listening to expert opinion has never been more important

By Pia Bungarten, Reinhard Krumm

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

A nuclear war must never be fought

The risk of nuclear war is real. A ‘no first use’ policy of nuclear weapons would actually bolster US security — and underpin its global leadership role

By Ramesh Thakur

Pexels

Interviews

'Replace the race to the bottom by a race to the top'

Do globalisation and inequality have to go hand in hand? Gabriel Zucman argues that this doesn't have to be the case — if we re-think our tax systems

Pexels

Future of social democracy

What is the price of a life?

A decade after the economic crash and a year into a global pandemic, some of us are still more equal than others — and inequality is still on the rise

By Kate Pickett

Reuters

Economy and ecology

Biden's America is no climate leader

The US administration doesn't recognise America's true responsibility in the climate crisis. Hence, it can't lead the cause for global climate justice

By Michael Davies-Venn

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Russia’s Sputnik diplomacy

While Western countries were busy with their own vaccination campaigns, Russia has filled the leadership vacuum in developing countries

By Valentina Lares

Pexels

Democracy and society

The pandemic within the pandemic

Globally, antibiotic use in hospitals has surged since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is fueling the crisis of antimicrobial resistance

By Loice Achieng Ombajo

Reuters

Schwerpunkt

The US and EU must waive the patents

Big Pharma claims that a lack of manufacturing capacity, not patents, are thwarting more vaccine production. That's a lie. We need a TRIPS waiver now

By Lori Wallach

Pexels

Work and digitalisation

A shrinking and expanding world

While the pandemic has equalised the access of knowledge around the world, the side-effects will be felt disproportionally in the global labour market

By Branko Milanović