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Article

Javier Milei: “My contempt for the state is infinite”

Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better | Leaders (2024)


Article

The division of Cyprus looks indefinite

Cyprus. Fifty years of division. There seems no prospect for the reunification of the island, half a century after turkey invaded the north. The i... (2024)


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Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro

Crime, abortion and socialism, not immigration, are the issues that rile them | The Americas (2024)


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How Europe’s fear of migrants came to dominate its foreign policy

The me-first school of diplomacy. Trade, aid and visas are increasingly conditional on helping Europe stem migration | Europe (2024)


Article

Democracy in Latin America. Chile’s crisis is not over yet

Political tumult is now the norm in the country | The Americas (2024)


Article

Oil in Brazil. The perils of Petrobras

Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company. His worst instincts are undermining the national oil company’s hard-won gains | The A... (2024)


Article

“National conservatives” are forging a global front against liberalism

Nationalist of the world, unite! The alliance may be incoherent, but that does not make it harmless | Briefing (2024)


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Chile is still haunted by the coup in September 1973

Latin American history. Half a century later. Chile is still haunted by the coup in 1973, and is at odds over how to mark it. Gabriel Boric, th... (2023)


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Argentina’s upcoming election; Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right

Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei are rising in the polls for this year’s presidential election | The Americas The annual inflation rate, of 11... (2023)


Article

Scottish politics; Scotland has been on a ten-year holiday from reality

Populism can unravel quickly. But its effects are long-lasting. The collapse of this Scottish National Party holds lessons for populists everywhere... (2023)


Article

De-growth: Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy

De-growers of the world, unite! | Europe Stop the economy, lefty Europeans want to get off. “Panels of citizens can advise what is wasteful ... (2023)


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Labour’s green industrial policy will not cure Britain’s economic ills | The Economist

Trying to fight climate change and raise growth risks doing neither well | Britain (2023)


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A spat over farming bodes ill for Ukraine’s future European prospects | The Economist

Have the limits of the EU’s support for its neighbour been reached? | Europe (2023)


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Why America’s clean-energy industry is stuck | The Economist

Blame in part its climate-friendly president | Business (2022)


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Karl Popper on democracy - From the archives: the open society and its enemies revisited

In 1988 The Economist invited the philosopher Karl Popper to write an article on democracy. It appeared in the issue of April 23rd that year and ma... (2021)


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Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional | The Economist

Covid-19 has exposed many of the city’s old problems—and some new ones, too | United States (2021)


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Why the European Union is a less-than-jolly green giant | Charlemagne. The Economist

The EU is better placed than national governments to set green standards. This will hurt | Europe (2021)


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Two Caribbean islands wrestle with their colonial powers | The Economist

European citizenship makes the people of Martinique and Sint Maarten richer, but not content | The Americas (2021)


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Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics—and failing | The Economist

As other firms become more political, some Silicon Valley companies are heading in the opposite direction | United States (2021)


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Protests in Colombia derail an important tax reform | The Economist

The unpopular bill was going to be Iván Duque’s legacy | The Americas (2021)


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A presidential power grab - El Salvador’s parliament sacks the country’s top judges

President Nayib Bukele is proving even less of a democrat than his opponents feared | The Americas (2021)


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Ever closer union?Europe’s radical economic response to covid-19

The EU can now borrow, but how well can the member nations spend? | Briefing (2021)


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This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful - POLITICO

The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, belie... (2021)


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Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)


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Technology and geopolitics - The struggle over chips enters a new phase | Leaders | The Economist

The age of their manufacture in China could be beginning. Samsung in South Korea. TSMC in Taiwan... (2021)


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Charlemagne - The European Parliament: powerful yet puny | Europe

MEPs have plenty of clout, but no idea how to use it (2020)


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The reluctant hegemon - Germany is being forced to take a leadership role it never wanted

But thirty years after reunification, it is finding its stride (2020)



Article

A united Ireland - Irish unification is becoming likelier | Leaders | The Economist

Time to start thinking about what it might mean (2020)


Article

A year of Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil’s president can boast some achievements. They come at a high price | Leaders (2020)


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Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion

It’s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it’s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society.But wha... (2021)


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Why Brazilian Women Support Jair Bolsonaro - New York Times

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s newly elected president, is known for his offensive remarks about women, but his hard-line agenda on crime has spurred man... (2019)


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Why Ukraine is trapped in endless conflict - Vox

The ceasefire is completely ignored. Correction: In a previous version, the Russian Empire at 2:31 did not include Finland and northern Kazakhstan ... (2018)


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Why this far-right candidate won Brazil's election -- Vox

Jair Bolsonaro, a congressman who has praised Brazil’s past military dictatorship, has become the country's president. Subscribe to our channel! ht... (2018)


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Brazil's Evangelical Far Right Could Elect The Country's Next President (HBO) - Vice News

Brazil’s supreme court ruled Wednesday that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has to start serving a 12-year prison sentence immediately, ... (2018)


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Why Brazil Might Elect An Ultra-Right Wing President (HBO) - Vice News

RIO DE JANEIRO — On a recent Sunday morning, a few hundred shirtless men wearing camo pants tucked into army boots got together to run in formation... (2018)


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Brazilian Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - 2018

Brazil is about to elect a new president during a turbulent period of political corruption and economic uncertainty. John Oliver urges the people o... (2018)


Video

Geopolitics of Turkey in Asia

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Turkey's Geographic Challenge

Stratfor examines how Turkey is attempting to expand its core into the eastern part of the country and how this affects the region. About Stratfor:... (2018)


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Italian Election: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Italy is in the throes of a turbulent race to elect a new prime minister. John Oliver discusses the colorful contenders and introduces an equally r... (2018)


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Poland's Geographic Challenge | Stratfor

STRATFORvideo Published on Jan 23, 2015 Stratfor examines Poland's difficult geographic position between Russia and the West. About Stratfor... (2018)


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Germany's Geographic Challenge STRATFORvideo

YouTube, 2013: Stratfor examines Germany's need to maintain territorial unity inside the country and preserve a balance of power across Europe. ... (2017)


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Nationalism vs Globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari - TED Talks

TED Published on Feb 21, 2017 How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yu... (2017)


Podcast

The threat to world trade (podcast) | The Economist on Spotify

Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)


Podcast

Social media's threat to democracy

The Economist, 2017: “Twitter, Facebook and Google were supposed to improve politics. Instead, from Russian meddling in America's election to polit... (2017)


Podcast

506- Monumental Diplomacy - Namibia and North Korean art - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify

In downtown Windhoek, Namibia -- at the intersection of Fidel Castro Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue -- there's an imposing gold building with an a... (2023)


Podcast

National Sword - 99% Invisible

Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Material... (2019)


Podcast

Europe's Direction in 2019 | Council on Foreign Relations

Matthias Matthijs joins Jim Lindsay to discuss Europe in 2019. (2019)


Book

The Daughters of Yalta

"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)


Book

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu

"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)


Book

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu

"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)


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