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Foreign and security policy

How Biden can boost the global economy

A people's vaccine, corporate tax, climate action. A few simple steps Biden could take for a more equitable global recovery

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

US exceptionalism is dead, long live US exceptionalism

The idea of American exceptionalism is clearly bankrupt. But Biden's foreign policy still offers a slimmed-down version of it

By Paul Hockenos

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Democrats need to go bold, or else lose in 2022

To avoid another, possibly worse, iteration of Trumpism, Democrats have one simple task: to help people and to do it fast

By Ezra Klein

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Joe Biden's 100-day recovery plan

The new US President's ambitious rescue plan could become the bailout that Americans so desperately need

By Knut Dethlefsen

Future of social democracy

Let him back on Twitter

Donald Trump's ban from Twitter is wrong. A few tech corporations should not get to decide who can express their opinions

By Nikolaos Gavalakis

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

The far right told us what it had planned. We didn’t listen

The Capitol riots weren't Trumpism’s 'last gasp', but a performance of a long-held fantasy. And most perpetrators walked away to fight another day

By Seyward Darby

Reuters

Future of social democracy

The next Trump will be even more dangerous

If the US cannot find a way to move past Trumpism, the next populist will take over more than just the Republican party

By Dorian B. Kantor

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Not all 74 million Trump voters can be racists

Trumpism isn’t just going away after the US elections. And we finally need to understand why

By Nikolaos Gavalakis

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Biden can’t be FDR. He Could Still Be LBJ

The president-elect has the power to make transformational progress look like ‘C’mon Man’ common sense. Will he use it?

By Anand Giridharadas

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Joe Biden should not miss the Bretton Woods moment

The incoming president must abjure Trump's mercantilist language in favour of a progressive response to globalisation

By Peter Bofinger