GlobalThe corona crisis will define our era The pandemic has highlighted the frailties of a short-sighted and hyper-individualistic social system By Karin Pettersson
GlobalA great equaliser The coronavirus is reminding some of the world’s privileged what it is like to experience daily stigmas By Branko Milanović
Future of social democracyHow 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
GlobalMoving 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
GlobalWhy we need ‘Fridays for Keynesianism’ Unlike neoclassical economics, Keynes recognised the key role of the financial system in modern capitalist economies By Peter Bofinger
GlobalWhy 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
GlobalThe myth of middle-class liberalism The bourgeois are supposed to ensure open, democratic societies. In fact, historically they rarely have By David Motadel
GlobalThe 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
GlobalWhy state capitalism isn’t primarily geopolitical States like China rarely use foreign investment for geopolitical goals. They try to reap the benefits of a globalised economy By Milan Babic
Economy and ecologyThe fierce urgency of COP26 With a US administration under Trump, European unity and leadership is the only hope for driving China's climate ambitions By Adam Tooze
