Germany can and should lead the way on EU energy solidarity
A common intervention is needed to tackle the energy crisis and stay out of Putin's trap.
Category Archives: Opinions
The menopause moment: Is all the talk really helping women?
Growing public conversations around menopause are shattering taboos. But they only help some women in the workplace.
Here’s what Putin needs to stop losing: A good columnist
Mr President, there may be an unorthodox way to avoid further humiliation in Ukraine.
Floods are tipping Pakistan into a food crisis
Farmland bigger than the Czech Republic is flooded. Fresh crops are delayed, supply chains disrupted. Now hunger looms.
Rishi Sunak does represent a minority — his class of plutocrats
Britain's new PM only offers diverse shades of exploitation and inequality, not shared wellbeing.
Russia’s military Keynesianism
The Kremlin's strategy to redistribute wealth through the war effort may boost its legitimacy.
Sudan’s hidden resistance: ‘The day that can no longer wait’
To assess Sudan’s appetite for a democratic, civilian state through street protests alone would be a mistake.
To save its economy, Sudan needs civilian rule
Loss of foreign funding and economic mismanagement have pushed the Sudanese economy to the brink since the coup.
NATO, Russia war games are making nuclear risks worse
Leaders on all sides are pursuing policies inexorably driving us towards nuclear war. They must step back. Now.
Could the EPC hold Europe together in the face of Russian threat?
The European Political Community could help draw European states in the east closer to Brussels. But it may not do more.
The US cannot ignore the new ‘pink tide’ in Latin America
The return of leftist governments in the region is a clear indication of region-wide rejection of US policies.
These Supreme Court cases could kill what remains of US democracy
If the conservative court upholds attempted violations of the Voting Rights Act, the US can drop pretences to justice.
Africa’s next wannabe third-term presidents must be stopped
If the presidents of Senegal and the Central African Republic are planning constitutional coups, the AU must step in.
Why men in the West get away with killing women
They're not called 'honour killings', but white Western men often get away with similar excuses. It's no coincidence.
Is Russia’s silent majority waking up?
The mobilisation has broken Putin's longstanding social contract with the Russian population to provide stability.
Why Sri Lanka has a tyrant as president — yet again
Unelected and brutal, Ranil Wickremesinghe must go. But so must the executive presidency that keeps serving up tyrants.
The Pacific’s future: ‘It’s either rats or reefs’
Invasive species are driving biodiversity loss in the Pacific. Island nations can fight them, if the world helps.
Racism never left US schools — now it’s taking worrying new forms
Overtly racist, sexist and queer-phobic books are filling the void left by bans on “critical race theory".
Josep Borrell as Europe’s racist ‘gardener’
The top EU diplomat's poisonous analogy of Europe as a garden and the world as an invading jungle inverts history.
Bolsonarism has already won in Brazil, even if Bolsonaro loses
Bolsonaro has gained seats in Congress amid a broader rightward shift that will keep him influential even if Lula wins.