There are only a few months left until the United Kingdom formally exits the European Union. So far, the debate about Brexit has been framed mainly in economic terms. Should…
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A unity cemented by tolerance is needed for social-democratic success in the elections to the European Parliament.
As the far right reshapes democracy, progressives from Berlin to Washington must decide whether cultural struggle beats technocratic caution.
What can an elected left-wing European government do when faced with imposed austerity? Redefining austerity can bring a turnaround.
Europeans are torn between fearing the vulnerabilities of American decline and seeing in it a chance to assert their own autonomy.
Sixty years on from Polanyi’s death and 80 since his classic text appeared, it is time to reassess the Hungarian social scientist’s legacy.
The start of 2016 has been anything but calm. Falling equity prices in China have destabilized markets worldwide. Emerging economies seem to have stalled. The price of oil has plunged,…
Woke culture emerged from elite shifts in identity politics, abandoning the economic roots of social justice.
I am asked now in Germany if the United States has just experienced a crisis of its Constitution. Sometimes this question refers to winning the popular vote while losing the…
Amid all the crises and upheavals that have battered the European Union over the past decade, one fixed point has been the stolid, stable government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.…
In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.
In the neoliberal era, economics marginalised the social sciences. But, Sheri Berman writes, only politics can tame capitalism’s chaotic gyrations.
I still vividly remember what fewer and fewer people, as time goes by, can and do: the names that Nikita Khrushchev, having decided to expose and publicly decry and condemn…
In 2015 the Greek people voted against austerity twice, in a general election and in a referendum. Opinion polls also consistently suggested that an overwhelming majority of Greek people wanted…
Can China and Russia offer an alternative social model to the universal norms they reject? The evidence says no.
The inauguration of President Trump, the separation of the UK from the European Union, the rise of the populist right across the US and Europe, and the political clampdown in…
The Third International Conference on Financing for Development recently convened in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The conference came at a time when developing countries and emerging markets have demonstrated their…