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21 November 2019
Brexit has weakened populists on the continent? This is wishful thinking. No longer willing to leave the EU, instead populists are determined to take it over. Brexit is a moving…
20 November 2019
Recently, the French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Beijing to challenge the attempt of the United States to normalize its trade relationship with China. With the lack of…
19 November 2019
Tackling climate change numbers among the most pressing issues for governments worldwide. But after the United Nations struggled to even find a host for its upcoming international…
18 November 2019
What the fall of the Wall and the last thirty years should have taught us is that without freedom there is no equality, and without equality freedom is fragile and vulnerable.…
15 November 2019
I recently sat down with inequality guru Branko Milanovic to discuss his path-breaking work on inequality, and his new book, Capitalism Alone (review follows tomorrow). Here are a…
14 November 2019
Tena Prelec reports on an initiative to expose how Western actors – such as bankers, accountants, lawyers, estate agents, and PR specialists – facilitate…
13 November 2019
The Netherlands has recently joined a handful of other Western countries in passing new laws with the hope of stifling terrorist activity and threats. Thea Hilhorst and Isabelle…
11 November 2019
Protests convulse global politics, but it’s what happens when they die down that can really make a difference. The last half-year has seen a startling cluster of protests around…
07 November 2019
Brooks Marmon explores the propaganda struggles and diplomatic debates emanating from Western sanctions on Zimbabwe. Africa fully supports the post-Mugabe regime of President…
05 November 2019
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Dennis Dijkzeul reflect on some of the new directions in humanitarian governance and the ambiguity of some of the principal techniques. According…