‘A beacon of light in Europe.’ That was how Donald Tusk described the electoral victory of his new Civic Coalition (KO) in the Polish general elections at the end of 2023. The party came to power at ...

Trump’s crushing victory over Harris casts serious doubt on one of the darling concepts of American political science: ‘polarization’. As of the latest count, Trump won the popular vote by over 3.5 ...

What are the top priorities of the incoming Trump administration? While it is perhaps too early to offer a definitive assessment, recent briefings and announcements suggest that his team has a long ...

It was perhaps predictable that China’s initial sharp rebound from the global financial crisis would serve to entrench widespread perceptions that the prc represents an alternative and, on some ...

Though less well-known in the Anglophone world, the economist turned social philosopher Frédéric Lordon has emerged as one of the most effective public figures of the French intellectual left. On tv ...

During the severe economic crisis of 2008–09, it seemed to many that neoliberalism was finished.footnote 1 The major us banks were facing collapse and survived only through state bailouts. Economic ...

The Bengal Famine of 1943–44, a man-made catastrophe that in total caused the deaths of perhaps five million people, was described by the incoming British Viceroy Archibald Wavell as threatening ...