By Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro (*) – European Council on Foreign Relations Ten bright and bold policy projections for the year 2022 2021 was supposed to be the year of recovery: recovery from the coronavirus, recovery from the pandemic-induced recession, and –…
By Lili Bayer and Jan Cienski – POLITICO The Czech Republic and Slovakia look to fellow liberal democracies, while Hungary and Poland head in the opposite direction. The Visegrad Group of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic is known as the V4, but it’s turning into…
By Felix Light – The Moscow Times Experts believe Moscow risks being sucked into neighboring unrest and having to manage strategic instability on two fronts. Russia’s deployment of troops as part of a military alliance to put down growing protest in neighboring Kazakhstan…
By Stephen Reicher, Alex Haslam, Evangelos Ntontis, Klara Jurstakova (*) – The Conversation It was the moment that could have brought US democracy to its knees. One year ago, around noon on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump gave the concluding speech to a “Stop the Steal” rally in…
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan(*) — Democracy Now! Stop Prosecuting the Press Gathering threats to democracy are front and center as the United States marks the first anniversary of the January 6th Capitol insurrection, when President Donald Trump incited…
By Àngel Ferrero* – Jacobin A conference this month aims to unite European far-right leaders like Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orbán in a continentwide alliance. What would once have been a fringe grouping can now rely on the support of several EU governments.
By Hippolyte Fofack* – Project Syndicate For centuries, colonial powers, and then superpowers, viewed Africa exclusively through the prism of their economic, security, and geopolitical interests, undermining income convergence and regional integration. Today, the same mentality…
By Nick Turse* – Tom Dispatch It began more than two decades ago. On September 20, 2001, President George W.
By Zoe Strozewski – Newsweek Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed controversial Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for re-election in this spring’s parliamentary vote.
Editorial- The Guardian Years of brutal conflict have brought misery to an already impoverished country. There is no end in sight Around 78% of Yemenis now live below the poverty line By the end of this year, the United Nations warned recently, 377,000 Yemenis will have…
