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We live in dangerous times — no doubt about it. How did we get to such a state of affairs where democracy itself is in a very fragile condition and the future of human…
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn. 2018. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674737563
There is a Chinese saying about two people sharing the same bed…
It is no easy task to make sense of U.S. foreign policy in the current era. Trump is wildly unpredictable and lacks any semblance of a coherent view of world affairs, appearing to…
Branko Milanovic uses Olsen's roving and stationary bandits framework to explain Russia's contemporary oligarchs.
Vladimir Putin’s recent interview to the Financial…
"Free markets" do not guarantee workers any freedoms other than the freedom to be unemployed and to starve.
Long before the growing interest in economic inequality facing…
Branko Milanovic asks if our life is a CV, what kind of social scientist will we make?
Recently I read, rather by accident than design, short lives of…
Is socialism making a comeback? If so, what exactly is socialism, why did it lose steam toward the latter part of the 20th century, and how do we distinguish democratic socialism…
Brian Stoddart argues that choosing the lesser of two political evils is the new global normal.
It is now a truism to note that politics in the West are either in transition, “…
The sharp rise in suicides and overdoses under Trump exposes the truth about the U.S. economy, Noam Chomsky says.
Donald Trump ran a campaign — and won the 2016 presidential…
Branko Milanovic on the exciting ideological choices facing the world's youth.
When I was young and would overhear (rare) conversations that my father and his friends…