Tech offers socialism from above: they own the machines, we get allowances. We need democracy from below, not just AI wealth, ...

Years of war in Ukraine have shifted global power away from the West. This may not yet represent a defeat, but it is ...

Noreena Hertz is an honorary professor at the UCL Policy Lab, where she leads research on AI. Iran’s protests show a regime trapped between anger at home and paralysis at the top ...

Ukraine’s top power shift signals deep securitisation and a careful balancing of rivals as the war enters a volatile phase ...

Once again, the people of Iran are protesting, calling for an end to the Islamic Republic. And with good reason: decades of ...

Trump’s bid for Greenland breaks the post-war consensus. If Europe wants to stand up to the US president, it must finally ...

As a new year begins, we must nurture aspirations for a world in which no one is treated as ‘other’, and refugees and ...

The absence of the president and the first lady shows that Venezuela is not a one-man dictatorship and never has been ...

Calls for firewalls against the far right overlook a key truth: democracy is defended through debate, not isolation ...

Despite the current ceasefire, we are still seeing Israeli military operations in Gaza, with recent reports of new strikes and casualties. Is Trump’s so-called peace plan, which was recently endorsed ...

Across advanced democracies, economic stagnation and growing geographic divides are no longer just regional or financial concerns — they are political flashpoints, fueling the rise of populist ...

The most unsettling image for a liberal observer is not a tank rolling into a presidential palace; it is the crowd of cheering citizens running alongside it. We create comfortable narratives to ...