The leaders of the United States have this time dropped the ball.
A new film The Economics of Happiness makes an eloquent case for a more localised economic system that forgoes ceaseless increases in GDP and delivers higher levels of wellbeing and even happiness. However, its failure to engage with defenders of GDP, big business and globalisation leave the viewe
To frame the crisis in the region as an “Arab crisis” is to risk essentializing the problem in another, unique “world.”
The crisis of social democracy is closely linked to that of capitalism. How should it respond to the sharp reminder that the interests of capital and labour are not identical?
In a world riven by the conflict between Christianity and Islam, the Republic of Tatarstan offers a heartening example of centuries of peaceful coexistence, even though the Caucasus with its religious and ethnic problems is not far away. Long may it last, hopes Oleg Pavlov.
Compass is deciding whether or not to open itself to members of any political party - rather than, as at present, only those who are members of the Labour party or of none. The decision feeds into a wider debate of the moment around the shifting distribution of power in British politics and the ex
Today, the government's forest sell-off policy will be forced to the vote in the House of Commons. It should be defeated for it is ill-considered and has all the hallmarks of a "squalid" sell-out to benefit the interests of the rich.
What we are seeing in the Arab world today is the might of collective power in the face of strength, force, authority and violence. Power creates something all-together new and original, while force, authority and especially violence “can destroy power, but [are] utterly incapable of creating it”
