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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

Reuters

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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

NASA

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From moonshots to earthshots

To overcome the big crises of our time, we need a mission-oriented entrepreneurial state. The Apollo programme showed how this can work

By Mariana Mazzucato

Reuters

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The end of the Armenia's post-revolution honeymoon

Two years after the Velvet revolution, post-war disillusionment has put Prime Minister Pashinyan's political future in question

By Richard Giragosian

Reuters

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Tunisia’s struggle for democracy isn't over

10 years after the revolution, patronage and populism rule the country. But Tunisians want a deeper form of democracy

By Henrik Meyer

Reuters

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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

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Global vaccination II

Too few vaccinations and too little trust in the government. Dispatches from France, Nigeria and Brazil

By Benjamin Schreiber, Daniel Mann, Christoph Heuser

Reuters

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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

The corona crisis

Global vaccination

Nothing is as political as the Covid-19 vaccination. Dispatches from Moscow, London and Warsaw

By Peer Teschendorf, Christos Katsioulis, Ernst Hillebrand