To win power, the left must build a narrative around ending privatisation, empowering the workforce and borrowing to invest. To stay in power, left governments must transition to an economy based on high automation, shorter working hours and free services. 

How far would Russia risk its international relations to protect the regime of Bashar Al Assad?

Rashan’s final visits to his GP and encounters with the police and social services. Day Six of the inquest into the death of a young Londoner.

History offers many reasons to look askance at technical shortcuts to the reformation of human character: a response to Vikram Zutshi.

The most likely challenger on June 24 is the CHP’s candidate Muharrem İnce who will have an uphill battle.

Latin America has extensive experience of politicized justice and judicialized politics. Today, as governments and parliaments face a deep credibility crisis, the judiciary has become a leading political actor. Español

It’s not too late to steer the Greek economy and the EU towards a sustainable development course for the twenty-first century. There are tools to deliver this. Policy-makers should use them.

The election is therefore offered a choice between three blocs, each of which mobilises people in terms of a different type of populism as expounded by their respective charismatic leader.

In Syria, one could notice some of the significant remarks denigrating others based on their religion, sect, race or color. العربية

The vote on two EU trade deals with Canada and Japan is a cynical move to quash debate about the democratic processes for – and the content of – the UK’s future trade deals.

In Nicaragua, the idea that its own inhabitants are capable of running their own country and determining their destiny is not yet an established one. Urgent elections are needed. Español

A third of Kyrgyzstan’s GDP sits in informal institutions. I spoke to people who use these systems to find out how it works — and why it’s important.

All countries within the European Union – and beyond – face the epochal challenge that there is no longer a shared conception of what a state is. A starting point and an invitation.