Politics

Some perspective on the referendum defeat for Chile’s draft constitution comes from a different quarter—Iceland.

It’s time to stop handing over the keys of state administrations to generalist private consultancy firms.

Can the European Political Community be the backbone of a new European security architecture? Nicoletta Pirozzi asks.

Could an Alevi social democrat defeat the authoritarian Erdoğan in next year’s election?

The honeymoon for a Meloni-led, right-wing government may prove to be shortlived.

Amid burgeoning crises, Robert Misik writes, the left finds itself assuming the mantle of responsibility.

Behind the anticipated far-right victory in Sunday’s elections lie trends of wider concern.

The rejection of the new constitution in a referendum has deep historical traces.

Elections come amid sweeping claims from the (far) right about a Sweden in decline.

Beyond the new electoral formation, a potential avenue is open to democratise work.

Judges are taking action, since EU institutions have failed to uphold the rule of law.

If there is a crisis of democracy, look up at leaders rather than down at citizens to find it.

A new social-democratic era requires a return to the steep postwar tax gradient.

Mikhail Gorbachev was Russia’s last liberal leader. His spirit lives on for the next.

Former leaders from the Italian left have joined forces to form a centrist coalition.

Only one political figure will benefit from chaos in Italy. He is in Moscow, not Rome.

Mainstream politicians, Lisa Pelling writes, must recognise that their words have consequences.