Don’t cancel Russian culture
Refusing to engage with Russian culture will not change Putin’s calculations, let alone impel him to withdraw from Ukraine.
Politics
Analysis and debate on European and national politics, democracy, the rule of law, parties and elections, and Europe’s place in the world.
China to the rescue?
Who could soften the apocalyptic effects of the war in Ukraine on the global south? China could, says Branko Milanovic.
A social-democratic decade ahead?
Now Austria’s SPÖ too has left its competitors far behind, Robert Misik asks: is the Zeitgeist moving to the left?
Von der Leyen is losing ground
If the European Union does not stand up for the rule of law in Poland and Hungary, it will embolden authoritarians everywhere.
Boris Johnson: blustering on
The grandiose promises Johnson makes to survive, Paul Mason writes, rely on a state like those … in the European Union.
A new Atlantic Charter
Ending the war in Ukraine and establishing a lasting peace in Europe require a new security architecture.
WhatsApp Europe?
How official instant messaging can be made accessible is a big question. Whether it is compatible with democracy is a bigger one.
Polarisation and the threat to democracy
In a polarised US, Sheri Berman writes, the tyranny of unrepresentative minorities represents the main threat to democracy.
Unhappy birthday, Andrei Sakharov
The Kremlin’s negation of the Nobel laureate’s legacy represents another step backwards which could lead to nuclear war.
How the public loses out when politicians cash in
Gerhard Schröder has clearly breached the trust of the German people.
Ukraine and Europe’s defence spending
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Adriano Cozzolino
Europe’s reaction to the Ukraine crisis will do much to define what kind of Europe it is to be.
A European constituency for a European public sphere
The European Parliament’s support for a pan-European constituency could transform the 2024 elections.
The uneven battlefield of reproductive rights
Progressives have been too slow to appreciate the attack on reproductive rights in eastern Europe and the US.
The new French left—the sociology of socialism
The realignment on the French left highlights the basic requirement that the left unite the working and professional classes.
For a democratic, egalitarian and feminist constitution
Chile’s constitutional convention is an example of how citizens’ representatives can refound a contemporary democracy.
The recovery will be green and feminist or it won’t be
Chile’s new constitution could be the first to embody egalitarian and ecological principles.