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Work and digitalisation

Tech’s own goal

The tech industry wants Americans to embrace AI. Its war on the government and its institutions may make that impossible

By Ngaire Woods

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Foreign and security policy

A lesson from the North

Few countries depend on the US as heavily as Canada — yet it is standing up to Trump. Europe should take note

By Jordan Leichnitz

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Democracy and society

Bernie and Mamdani did it, can the rest of the progressives?

The American left is focusing on social issues again. It must now prove that this approach will help it win back the working-class voters it has lost

By Justin Vassallo

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Economy and ecology

California is taking on the ultra-rich

Could this be the start of a global movement to end tax impunity at the top?

By Lamia Oualalou

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Economy and ecology

Here he goes again

Trump’s tariff war has found a new justification. Yet if he were truly concerned about forced labour, he would address the problem at home

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

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Foreign and security policy

The zombification of America

A post-American world? Apparently not so bad after all. The collapse of the world order is going much better than expected

By Stephen Marche

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Democracy and society

The America that broke my mother’s heart

The times when a communal creative introspection swept across the US have long gone — to the detriment of us all

By Yanis Varoufakis

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Economy and ecology

Capitalism’s creature

For 250 years, the market economy promised ever-greater progress at the expense of morality. Turns out that is not what Adam Smith had in mind

By Antara Haldar

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Democracy and society

Stacked atlas

Trump is having constituencies redrawn to preserve his majority. Yet it is highly doubtful whether his plan will succeed

By Antonia Herzinger

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Foreign and security policy

More ships, more missiles, more power?

The US failure in Iran exposes the limits of power. But it also shows a deeper loss of moral and leadership capital that may be harder to recover

By Dan Smith