Global markets and the new illiberalism

Berlin Military-service plan agreed: Germany’s coalition government has ...

For a leader who has always been essentially cautious, Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine seemed an uncharacteristically wild gamble. But Putin hasn’t really changed at all, says Mark Galeotti: he has simply become more himself

Washington DC Economist resigns: Larry Summers, the economist ...

What’s going on? The nation has a newish leader, elected on a wave of muted enthusiasm – or at least a sense that he couldn’t be as bad as the last lot – but who has quickly proved a disappointment in

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