World
Who wins from the EU’s new investment deal with China?
Europe has sacrificed precious geopolitical capital to reach a framework agreement. Will it be worth it?
Biden's Presidency alone won't be enough to fix America's broken political culture
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 storming of the US Capitol is about the whole American right
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
Does the Brexit deal keep us safe?
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
Republic of unequals
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?
America needs more class politics—and less “intersectional” posturing
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
How longer life expectancy has changed our view of ageing
Longer living can open up more possibilities for all of us
The overseas impunity bill
Dangerous legislation would betray victims of atrocities abroad
The future of liberalism
Faced with creeping authoritarianism, liberals need to craft a new agenda—learning from their serious mistakes, and shaking shibboleths of both right and left
Is the UN fit for purpose?
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.
Can Joe Biden unify America?
A new biography describes a likeable if flawed figure
What happened to the Arab Spring?
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…