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Opinion & Features

The US government shutdown may help Democrats, but not democracy

A makeshift memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Phoenix, Arizona. While partisan disagreement is as old as the republic, today’s polarisation represents a qualitatively different phenomenon.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

The deeper divide: America’s political polarisation crisis

research programmes and market incentives need to support faster innovation in digital assets that remain in their infancy.
Wealth & Investing

How cryptocurrencies accelerate geopolitical shifts

An empty bar in Santiago, Chile. The Chilean economy, once the wonder of Latin America, has barely been growing in recent years, and the investment boom of the 1990s and 2000s is long past.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Chile’s unhappy success

European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters, on the day farmers protest against proposed cuts to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funding and the European Commission's plan to merge agricultural and cohesion policies, in Brussels, Belgium July 16, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

European democracy needs its middle class back

Carney gave Canada’s median voter a crash course in the merits of rules-based internationalism.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

Mark Carney: democracy’s unTrump

The arguments Plato makes against democracy are spoken by Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But the system that Socrates is rejecting is Athenian democracy, which differs from contemporary representative democracy.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

How to fix democracy? Ancient philosopher Plato may have an answer

According to a confidential cable revealed on Sunday by the German daily Bild, Berlin’s envoy Andreas Michaelis denounced Donald Trump’s planned “strategy of maximal disruption” to “redefine the constitutional order”. and warned it could weaken democracy in the United States.
International

Leaked diplomat cable lays bare German fears over Trump

Hundreds of people had queued from the early hours outside the court for the sentencing of 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists.
International

Jailing of 45 Hong Kong democrats in landmark trial draws criticism

FILE PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Opinion & Features

Wider boost for Biden’s global democracy promotion agenda

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