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Foreign and security policy

Not even the pandemic could stop a new arms race

The pandemic could have been a chance to reverse high military spending globally. Instead, we could be heading towards a new Cold War-style arms race

By Herbert Wulf

Reuters

Economy and ecology

The new transatlantic alliance

To make the transatlantic economy a leader in the fight against climate change, Europe should work with US President Biden on a joint CO2 tax

By Metin Hakverdi

Reuters

Work and digitalisation

How the post-pandemic labour market will look like

The pandemic has exacerbated racial, gender and educational inequality in the labour market. We need to fundamentally reimagine work after Covid-19

By Laura Tyson, Susan Lund

Reuters

Economy and ecology

Credit-rating agencies could derail economic recovery

The world's major private agencies are preventing low-income countries from investing in the recovery. We urgently need an independent public agency

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

Democracy and society

Global vaccination VII

In China, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, normal life has more or less resumed. The low infection rates make up for the slow vaccination campaigns

By Alexander Kallweit, Alexander Rosenplänter, Christoph P. Mohr

Reuters

Work and digitalisation

Big Tech vs the Free Press

Beyond censorship, Big Tech's capture of digital ad revenue poses a major threat to the free press. But it could now face a united transatlantic front

By Steven Hill

Reuters

Interviews

'We've seen a big global failure in the case of Covid-19'

On 11 March last year, the WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. Former CDC director Tom Frieden on whether we're better prepared for the next one

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Democracy and society

Failing to collect data about women is no trivial offence

As data informs the way we design our world — from infrastructure to medical research —, the ‘gender data gap’ can become a matter of life or death

By Anja Papenfuss

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Global vaccination VI

Chile, the United States and Denmark are their continent's leaders in the vaccination campaign against Covid-19. How did they do it?

By Simone Reperger, Knut Dethlefsen, Philipp Fink

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

A new era for the WTO?

Many Global South countries have been deeply disappointed by the crisis-stricken WTO. Its new director-general, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, hopes to fix it

By Yvonne Bartmann