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President Donald Trump’s return to the White House set off a slew of “hand-wringing” about the future of the global order. While commentators theorized that Trump, along with other quasi-populists ...

In 2006, a few months after the Nobel Peace Prize for Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank was announced, I was visiting Germany. Quite understandably, I found nonresident Bangladeshis overwhelmed with joy ...

Only a strong Left will be able to challenge the hegemonic Right in Central and Eastern Europe. Scandinavian Social Democracy offers the model for this challenge. Alter-globalization slogans. Commons ...

I struggle with neoliberalism – as a problematic economic system we might want to change – and as an analytical term people increasingly use to describe that system. I’ve been reading and writing ...

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A few days before Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, I travelled to San Francisco to accept a curious invitation from one of his campaign’s funders. Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of ...

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Alter-globalization slogans. Commons Wikimedia/free to use and share.The 1990 transitions from the Soviet and Yugoslav forms of existing communism were predicated on the assumption that there are no ...