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Interviews

'Trump seems visibly overwhelmed'

Reinhard Krumm, from the US, on Trump’s Russia ultimatum, his supposed closeness to Putin, and the response from the Republican camp

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Economy and ecology

Trump has wrecked the US economy

Less than six months into his second term, a good economy that Donald Trump turned bad is about to get much worse

By Laura Tyson, Lenny Mendonca

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Future of social democracy

Restoring lost livelihoods is essential for saving democracy

Trump owes his electoral success to workers without college degrees who feel betrayed by the system. The onset of AI will make this problem much larger

By Mordecai Kurz

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Democracy and society

This is what autocracy looks like

The question now is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond

By Michelle Goldberg

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Foreign and security policy

Flipping the table

Once a global leader, the US now obstructs the very goals it helped build — with global development falling victim to domestic politics

By Mark Leon Goldberg

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Democracy and society

Canada’s election rollercoaster

Mark Carney scored a stunning election win — but unless his government delivers fast, the Liberals could lose support as quickly as they regained it

By Jordan Leichnitz

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Democracy and society

Daring to dream of systemic change

The Democratic Party needs a progressive vision for the future — a bold, anti-establishment alternative to MAGA

By Marlies Murray

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Work and digitalisation

American brain drain?

The crazier the US seems, the more attractively sane Europe looks to much of the world — including foreign students and academics

By Polly Toynbee

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Economy and ecology

When friends become enemies

Trump’s tariff war is causing economic and political turmoil in neighbouring Canada. How is this affecting the election campaign?

By Jordan Leichnitz

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Democracy and society

How women should behave

The more important difference between Democrats and Republicans isn’t whether they are men or women, but their attitudes about gender

By Michael Tesler, John Sides, Colette Marcellin