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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

Reuters

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

Reuters

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

Reuters

Progressive illusions

That's not the new Watergate

Despite a scandal-ridden US administration, it's an illusion to think Donald Trump will be gone any time soon

By Tobias Fella

Reuters

Future of social democracy

The left will decide Poland’s future

The rising star of Robert Biedroń could finally unite the opposition against the populist Polish government

By Sławomir Sierakowski

Public Domain

Europe

A missed opportunity

The utopian demands of the feminist citizens’ initiative in Austria make it far too easy for its critics

By Barbara Tóth

Videos

'You can't be a successful president without minority participation'

Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Kwame Rose on mobilising minorities for the US midterm elections 2018

By Kwame Rose

Reuters

Europe

Sex and populism

There's reason to believe that high male-to-female ratios may fuel tensions between refugees and locals

By Daniel Gros

Pexels

Europe

The end of solidarity

How the obsession with identity politics, tribalism, and victimhood is atomising society

By Robert Pfaller

Reuters

North America

This is not the end of Trump

Chaos in the White House has not diminished the chances of a two-term presidency

By Roger Cohen