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As empires grab resources and discard international law, the EU must forge a new social federalism—or become a vassal.
Europe's financial sector is racing to adopt artificial intelligence—but workers are being left behind without a voice in the transformation.
Donald Trump's assault on the Federal Reserve should finally convince progressives that monetary autonomy is a democratic necessity.
Nina L. Khrushcheva suspects that the Trump administration’s recent actions may have shaken the Russian leader’s confidence.
Viktor Orbán's pseudo-democratic questionnaires manufacture consent rather than measure it, yet European media uncritically repeat their results as fact.
The rush to "simplify" sustainability reporting ignores the lessons of 2008 and imperils Europe's financial system.
Europe's leading public intellectual offers a flawed, Eurocentric reading of US politics that obscures more than it reveals.
Joseph E. Stiglitz thinks the rest of the world should plan for the worst and pursue a policy of containment of the US.
The centre-left's defensive crouch has made it look like a guardian of an unfair status quo—radical reformism offers escape.
Europe's leaders, paralysed by fear, are repeating the mistakes of the 1930s—and hastening their own irrelevance.
After 15 years of Fidesz rule, an unlikely challenger threatens Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary but formidable obstacles remain.
Geoff Mulgan reimagines the state as a lean, agile force that delivers power without the drag of bureaucracy.
Timothy Snyder sees a familiar connection between US domestic repression and escalating foreign aggression.
The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook the world as
The US National Security Strategy confirms what Europeans already suspected: they must forge their own continental framework.
The EU has the technology, the workers and the demand—now it needs the political will to turn its railway industry into a climate-policy success story.
Waning US leadership and China's new world order compel Europe to unite or face marginalization.