Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again”. Now, halfway through his third term, macroeconomic indicators paint a fairly rosy picture of the country’s trajectory under his...
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For three decades after the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, political science and practical politics in Western Europe and North...
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Every year in Poland we ritualistically lament the country’s low-level readership, but we are yet to see the state take...
Sometimes it is almost impossible to escape a feeling of wonder for the abundance of life in our world. Especially...
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Historians are generally wary of commemorations – fireworks that dazzle the eye only to fade in the same instant. But...
Ever since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, there has been frantic speculation about what it is...
The Syrian writer, journalist and dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the most prominent voices of the Syrian Revolution....
