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Europe

'Stop to bloody shirts'

Zoran Lutovac from the Serbian opposition alliance on the anti-government protests in Belgrade

By Dr Zoran Lutovac

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North America

The secret to winning in 2020

If they want to win the 2020 US elections, the Democrats need a candidate who can and will run as an economic populist

By David Leonhardt

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Global

Populism is rooted in politics, not economics

Why the populist surge has been mainly on the right, rather than on the left

By Andrés Velasco

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North America

The Republicans go full authoritarian

Only Trump’s flamboyant awfulness stands in the way of his party’s power grab

By Paul Krugman

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Europe

Beyond the anti-women backlash

How we can understand women’s support for the right in Poland and Hungary

By Weronika Grzebalska, Eszter Kováts

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Europe

The municipalist revolution

Naples shows how local democracy can defy the neoliberal paradigm

By Eleonora de Majo

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Future of social democracy

The more the merrier

Germans shouldn't worry about fragmentation of their party system — more parties in parliament is good for democracy

By André Krouwel

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Interviews

AMLO: a new hope for Latin America?

Svenja Blanke on the inauguration of the new Mexican president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador

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North America

We need a high wall with a big gate

With Trump using immigration for political gain, Democrats need to be the adults and offer a realistic vision

By Thomas L. Friedman

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Latin America

Left un-splintered

How Uruguay's Frente Amplio, a coalition of 40 progressive forces, defies the right-wing assault on Latin America

By Sebastian Sperling