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Europe

The nationalist cosmopolitan

...sounds like an oxymoron? Many voters don’t see it that way – and so don’t feel included in the current political debate

By Jan Eichhorn

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Latin America

Bible, Beef and Bullets

What a victory of Jair Messias Bolsonaro would mean for democracy in Brazil and the whole of Latin America

By Pablo Stefanoni

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Global

The false hero called digitalisation

It's an illusion to think digitalisation will not destroy any jobs. In fact, they might be sacrificed on the altar of competitiveness

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Global

Whatever it takes

After 2008, the left failed to end neoliberalism. Ten years on, it has to get its act together and prevent another financial crisis

By Wolfgang Schroeder

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Europe

Towns with hope

The Brexit referendum has exposed the deep divide between towns and cities. It's time to reunite the ‘two Englands’

By Lisa MP Nandy

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North America

Liberals, this is war

What’s at stake is much more than a single seat on the US Supreme Court

By Charles M. Blow

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Latin America

Beyond Maduro

Why Latin American left-wing populism is much more complex than the failing government of Venezuela

By Jonas Wolff

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Progressive illusions

The liberal illusion of automatic progress

Proclaiming the inevitability of human progress too often turns a blind eye to criticism of capitalism and social inequality

By Nils Heisterhagen

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Europe

Ode to Joy

What the first female party leader Joy Pamela Rendi-Wagner intends to do with the Austrian Social Democrats

By Barbara Tóth

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Latin America

'The middle classes hate the Workers’ Party.'

Sociologist Esther Solano on the first round of the Brazilian Presidential Elections this Sunday

By Esther Solano