Is ESG the solution to climate and social ills?
Corporations tacking on environmental and social goals falls well short of an answer.
Here we go again …
The cost-of-living crisis, Kate Pickett writes, follows a familiar path of hugely unequal burdens.
The political struggle over reality in Sweden
Elections come amid sweeping claims from the (far) right about a Sweden in decline.
Where is the French left going?
Beyond the new electoral formation, a potential avenue is open to democratise work.
Who cares for the carers?
The European Care Strategy is a step in the right direction but care workers need more.
Who guards the guardians in Europe?
Judges are taking action, since EU institutions have failed to uphold the rule of law.
Trade unions on the frontline in the cost-of-living crisis
Defending workers' living standards has become trade unions' primary concern.
Are workers going to pay the bill for Putin’s war?
Real wages could fall by 2.9 per cent in the European Union in 2022.
Enclosing the internet—Big Tech’s cloud cover
Like physical clouds, the services provided by the technology majors are utterly opaque.
Who is to blame? Citizens, elites and democracy
If there is a crisis of democracy, look up at leaders rather than down at citizens to find it.
Progressive taxation for a renewed social contract
A new social-democratic era requires a return to the steep postwar tax gradient.
Municipalities can overcome Europe’s fossil-fuel addiction
Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis.
The greatest democrat Russia ever had
Mikhail Gorbachev was Russia's last liberal leader. His spirit lives on for the next.
The life and death of Italian centrism
Former leaders from the Italian left have joined forces to form a centrist coalition.
Deinstitutionalising disabled people—making it happen
Adoption of strategies on deinstitutionalisation could reinvigorate a stalled process in Europe.
Ukraine could abandon key labour principle
The government’s post-war reconstruction plans threaten a ‘Mad Max-style dystopia’.
Vehicles and just transition—turning the wheel
Coal has been at the heart of the just-transition debate. Cars need to be central too.