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Global vaccination V

Cuba's vaccine is almost ready — and will be offered to tourists. Turkey's campaign progresses quickly, while Kenya suffers from the global shortage

By Yesko Quiroga, Bastian Schulz, Felix Schmidt

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Bitcoin lacks a unique selling proposition

Bitcoin’s Achilles heel is that it could be easily replaced by the around 8,000 other cryptocurrencies

By Peter Bofinger

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What we learned from the 2021 Catalan elections

Amid a resurgence of the Socialists, pro-independence parties maintained their majority in the Catalan parliament

By Jonathan Parker

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Why are Republicans still this loyal to a Mar-a-Lago Exile?

Republicans need to talk about the country’s needs, not just the threats posed by the left. That requires disowning Trump

By Peter Wehner

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Who represents the British working class?

At the last UK election, many 'red wall' Labour seats went to the Tories. But the new Conservative coalition is more volatile than it may seem

By Paula Surridge

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Why such an imperfect union?

US political dysfunctionality is often put down to partisanship and polarisation. But that ignores the actual issues at stake

By Sheri Berman

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Global vaccination IV

Global vaccine fatigue is talking hold — before vaccinations have even started. Dispatches from Hungary, Senegal and Japan

By Beate Martin, Thomas Mättig, Sven Saaler

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The EU is about to make Facebook even worse

Big Tech media platforms are dangerous. But the EU's proposed competition laws won’t fix it — and could make it worse

By Steven Hill

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Portugal is not immune to right-wing populism after all

The Portuguese right-wing populist Chega is making inroads into Communist strongholds — with revisionist positions on racism and colonialism

By Tilo Wagner

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The next stage of Dutch populism?

The sentiments expressed in uprisings in the Netherlands — and fuelled by right-wing populists — strikingly resemble those from the Capitol riots

By André Krouwel