Europe has sacrificed precious geopolitical capital to reach a framework agreement. Will it be worth it?

The Capitol riots are the latest horrifying example of the division Trump has stoked over the past four years. But it won't be healed by the President leaving office

The President is not an aberration, but the culmination of the slow drift of a Republican party that gave up on democracy a long time ago

As the UK’s last European commissioner, I know how welcome it is that a deal was struck—and how much remains to be done

The inequality baked into contemporary US capitalism is warping America’s society and politics, explains Nobel laureate Angus Deaton. Joe Biden’s administration is bursting with inequality experts, but what chance do they really stand of fixing the problem?

Trump deserved to be routed, but his base stayed loyal—largely because of the left’s perverse obsession with what divides, rather than unites, America’s economically downtrodden majority

Longer living can open up more possibilities for all of us

Dangerous legislation would betray victims of atrocities abroad

Faced with creeping authoritarianism, liberals need to craft a new agenda—learning from their serious mistakes, and shaking shibboleths of both right and left

Humanity looks to the United Nations for one thing above all else: to prevent atrocities. But it failed to stop the massacre of the Rohingya in Myanmar, just as it failed in Sri Lank, Bosnia and Rwanda.

A new biography describes a likeable if flawed figure

A decade ago, a fruit-seller in Tunisia set himself alight, and before long dictators were falling like dominoes. Only in the place where it all began has a new democracy endured—but so have many of the problems it was meant…