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A meditation on the ‘millennials’ and several of the discussions at Team Syntegrity 2017.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving…
Branko Milanovic weighs in on the current rise of the idea of ‘illiberal democracies’.
The term “illiberal democracy” was, I think, introduced by Fareed Zakaria. It was used as a…
In a new book of interviews with C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky discusses capitalism, US imperialism, Black Lives Matter, the refugee crisis and cracks in the European Union, the…
The UK’s decision to vote for Brexit has been viewed by many observers as proof that the European Union suffers from a deep crisis of legitimacy. As Matt Wood highlights…
Tristan Kenderdine calls for better tools to analyze China’s growing economic influence.
Trade agreements between nation states usually create state-to-state frameworks for…
David Held, GP’s General Editor, explores social, economic and political understandings of evolution in a lecture recently delivered at Durham University.
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African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent.
As African feminists, we face multiple…
Kristian Hoelscher and Jason Miklian ask how tech can be harnessed for peace without ignoring the lessons from past conflicts and causing more harm than good.
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The rise of populism is a challenge for open societies but an opportunity for public policy schools. Students and alumni of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin …
At the United Nations, the buzz around a “data revolution” has taken the role of numeric indicators to new heights. Once thought to be a technical issue for statisticians, data…