CHINA

G7 and China are competing to define global governance

Magyar’s victory demonstrates that democratic systems can correct themselves despite institutions being hollowed out.

The great Hungarian reset

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's "norms and practices underpinning democracy substantially deteriorated", says one academic, yet he remains one of the world's most popular elected leaders.
THE BROAD VIEW

The paradox of democratic backsliding

While some tech companies are trying to harness the wisdom of crowds to improve their design choices, these initiatives are unlikely to work in isolation, says the writer.
THE BROAD VIEW

Want to solve deepfakes? Ask citizens what to do

Between 2000 and 2024, one per cent of the world’s population captured 41 per cent of all new wealth, of which just one per cent went to the poorest 50 per cent, a report said.

‘Inequality crisis’ threatens democracy, experts warn G20

Unemployed steelworkers in America’s Rust Belt did not get the economic lift promised during US President Donald Trump’s first term.

Deliveroo politics

Donald Trump's assault on the rule of law is so sweeping that it doesn't easily lend itself to concrete demands in a shutdown.

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.
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.

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.
THE BROAD VIEW

Chile’s unhappy success