A ‘Hamiltonian moment’ for Europe
Invoking Alexander Hamilton in the context of the sensitisation achieved by Black Lives Matter could not be more inappropriate.
The woman Roosevelt relied on to put America back to work
Roosevelt is invoked more than ever amid talk of a ‘new deal’ for today’s crisis. Rather fewer, however, recall the woman at the heart of his programme.
Bidding for political immortality
Branko Milanovic contends that historic decisions by authoritarian leaders today will leave a legacy nigh impossible to reverse in the future.
How women can power the green transition
The shift to sustainable energy gives societies a chance to tackle systemic gender discrimination.
For a law of ‘algorithmic justice at work’
Workers must be protected from adverse decisions where responsibility is displaced to apparently anonymous algorithms.
AI: those are citizens marching, not robots
Artificial intelligence, usually thought of as substituting human endeavour, should be conceived as a way of enhancing it for all.
Collective bargaining—a legal right unrecognised in Ireland
The EU recovery plan must link company bailouts to enforcement of collective-bargaining rights.
Time to tackle the tax dodgers
With some bailed out companies continuing to pay dividends, the focus should shift to making big corporations contribute to the cost of recovery.
Carbon pricing and the exit from fossil fuels
Adam Tooze argues the European Green Deal and young Europeans’ activism are fostering a virtuous circle favouring more rapid decarbonisation.
Priorities for the Covid-19 economy
The most urgent policy priorities have been obvious since the beginning, but they will require hard choices and a show of political will.
Challenging patents key to make Covid-19 vaccine work for all
Finding a vaccine against the coronavirus is a biochemical challenge. Ensuring universal access to it, however, is a political choice.
The EU is muddling through another crisis—which may be good enough
The divisions exposed by the coronavirus have reopened fundamental questions about the ultimate aims of the EU. But now is not the time to answer them.
Emerging stronger from the crisis
Europe needs to do more at federal level if a recovery plan is to be successful.
The Main Street manifesto
The historic protests which have swept America were long overdue, not just as a response to racism and police violence but also as a revolt against entrenched plutocracy.
Technological sovereignty—and a sepia-image Britain
Paul Mason bemoans how ‘Brexit’ has left the UK a beached whale in a world in need of technological regulation driven by European values.
Let this time be different!
Europe needs a green industrial recovery strategy to exit the pandemic.
A new social contract
The 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index exposes the failings of the world’s economic model—a new social contract can help us build a new one.