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North America

President Trump is unfit for this crisis. Period.

The coronavirus is no longer just a public health crisis. It’s a crisis of transparency and government legitimacy

By Jennifer Senior

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Europe

Slovakia's politics turned upside down

Slovaks are fed up with the criminal nexus between politics, judiciary and unscrupulous businessmen. That's why a protest party won the elections

By Anne Seyfferth

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Europe

Boris vs BBC

The UK Prime Minister wants to slash fees for the public broadcaster. That's straight out of the playbook of Germany's AfD

By Aaron Burnett

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Europe

After Brexit, it’s open season for xenophobia

Even though the UK has technically left the EU, ‘Brexit’ has escalated into a culture war over immigration

By Paul Mason

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Future of social democracy

How the 21st century left thinks about economic democracy

Instead of top-down state socialist models, the new left asks how we can build a pluralist ecosystem of democratic ownership

By Christine Berry

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Global

Why we need ‘Fridays for Keynesianism’

Unlike neoclassical economics, Keynes recognised the key role of the financial system in modern capitalist economies

By Peter Bofinger

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Future of social democracy

What’s at stake in the Democratic primaries

While the Democrats differ less on policy than one might think, they do have opposing ideas on how to win against Trump

By Sheri Berman

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North America

Trump is abusing his tariff power, too

Donald Trump abuses US trade policy for his own interests and without the approval of Congress. That's definitely illegal

By Paul Krugman

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Future of social democracy

Bolivia's left stands united

Evo Morales' movement might be able to exploit the right's failure to close their ranks ahead of the upcoming elections

By Philipp Kauppert

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Global

Why AI will not abolish work

Without new ways of fairly distributing paid and unpaid work, technologies such as AI could bring about a highly divided world

By Andrea Komlosy