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Democrats displayed more depression than anger in the weeks following Donald Trump's 2024 victory. Alas, partisans on the progressive left and their camp followers among conventional liberals could avoid succumbing [...]

In a recent interview, Emmanuel Macron said the French historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Nazis in 1944, gave in his book Strange Defeat the best explanation of the dangers […]

Now that the government has put Poland back on a pro-EU path and secured the release of previously frozen EU funds, its main policy aims are to continue pushing through [...]

In a multipolar age, states will have to look after their own security In different but complementary and insightful ways, Robert D Kaplan, John Gray and Helen Thompson have made [...]

Since the publication of Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed in 2018, a small but growing number of religious conservatives have been reevaluating the place of classical liberalism in America's political [...]

The progressive movement, we are often told, represents the future of American politics. It boasts millions of passionate (mostly younger) activists and generally dominates universities, think tanks, Hollywood, and the [...]

For over a century, people around the world have lived through an American era: a period dominated by U.S. power, wealth, institutions, ideas, alliances, and partnerships. But many now believe [...]

They say that in politics, as in war, it is impossible to fight something with nothing. And, in the realm of constitutional jurisprudence, America's progressives are at long last discovering [...]

In late February, as Russian forces moved into Ukraine, Vladimir Putin declared that his offensive was aimed not just at bringing Russia's neighbor to heel but also at repudiating the [...]

With the ousting of Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee for the presidency, the corrosion of democratic norms that began with Donald Trump's baseless claims about the 2020 election and [...]

In a new series, named 'Face to Face' in homage to the former New Statesman editor John Freeman's celebrated television interviews of the 1960s, today's foremost thinkers, writers and politicians [...]

Argentina needs saving. Annual inflation is 113%. The peso's black-market value against the dollar has fallen by half this year. After decades of economic mismanagement, mostly under Peronist administrations, Argentines [...]

In the latest edition of Latinobarómetro, an international poll in Latin America, respondents were asked to rate their approval of 17 named leaders on a scale of one to ten. [...]

The abrupt disappearance of a familiar world leaves a sense of unreality in those who witness it. When an unhinged rabble stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC in January, [...]

De Balie, a cosily chic cultural venue on Amsterdam's Leidseplein, is the epicentre of Dutch liberal intellectual life. On May 3rd it played host to two thinkers representing ideas that [...]

Political and economic outlook Although diversified, Morocco's economy is vulnerable to shifts in the agricultural sector. Services (especially tourism) have become a major contributor to GDP and source of employment [...]

The Scottish National Party's plan for their new nation reflects a classically liberal ideal of limited government. It would feature a written constitution, which would entrench fundamental rights and 'bind [...]

Political and economic outlook Although diversified, Morocco's economy is vulnerable to shifts in the agricultural sector. Services (especially tourism) have become a major contributor to GDP and source of employment [...]

AT FOUR O'CLOCK on a Thursday afternoon, the lobby of Dragonfly Wellness is almost completely full. Clients perch expectantly on the sofas, waiting to be buzzed through the locked door [...]

Political and economic outlook Although diversified, Morocco's economy is vulnerable to shifts in the agricultural sector. Services (especially tourism) have become a major contributor to GDP and source of employment [...]

Political and economic outlook Morocco's economy remains vulnerable to shifts in the agricultural sector, but services (especially tourism) have also become a major contributor to GDP and source of employment [...]

Political and economic outlook Morocco's economy remains vulnerable to shifts in the agricultural sector, but services (especially tourism) have also become a major contributor to GDP and source of employment [...]

Chile's draft constitution is a fiscally irresponsible left-wing wish list. Voters should reject it W HEN ANGRY and occasionally violent protesters took to the streets of Santiago, Chile's capital, in [...]

ROBERT CRUMB IS the undisputed godfather of alternative comics. His work has appeared in museums across the world, from the Venice Biennale to New York's Museum of Modern Art; he [...]

The government's campaign against Islamist radicals is really a campaign against its political opponents B UREAUCRATS HAVE a reputation for being boring. But not in Indonesia, whose civil service is [...]

Labour and the Lib Dems are learning to play nicely with each other A HIERARCHY OF hate exists on the progressive wing of British politics. True, Labour wallahs may not [...]

Political and economic outlook Morocco's economy remains vulnerable to shifts in the agricultural sector, but services (especially tourism) have also become a major contributor to GDP and source of employment [...]

A wave of left-wing governments has more differences than similarities W HEN GABRIEL BORIC, who is 36 and calls himself a 'libertarian socialist', is sworn in as Chile's president on [...]

The three-party centre-right coalition that has been in office since October 2020 is likely to complete its four-year term, with domestic concerns about the impact of the Ukraine conflict prompting [...]

Britons are both more and less liberal than their government I T HAS BEEN a rough week for anti-immigrant populism. On February 28th the House of Lords torpedoed a flagship [...]

We expect the next government, likely to be led by Mr Marcos, to stick to Mr Duterte's pro-market policy course. This will include more initiatives to improve the country's business [...]