Across Europe, far-right parties continue to flourish. Walker Winslow-Stephenson argues that Europe’s future rests less on ...

American conservatives revere the illiberal playbook of former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Perhaps nowhere is this inspiration more visible than in education. Yet, says Prokop Válek, this b ...

In March this year, a Russian online campaign promoted a fake 'Narva People’s Republic' in Estonia. It flopped. But the ...

Right-wing and far-right leaders have won recent elections in several Latin American countries. Against the backdrop of a ...

Recent raids on LGBTQ+ associations and private homes of LGBTQ+ activists in Türkiye are more than an attack on a ...

Poland’s democratic backsliding was not preceded by voters becoming more extreme, argue Marta Kołczyńska, Maciej Sychowiec and Oliwia Szczupska. Before democratic erosion took hold, Poles’ views were ...

Serbia's student movement is on the ballot on 25 October, but no student is a candidate. Drawing on internal documents, Sadie Zarris shows how a movement without leaders wrote itself an exacting ...

Advanced economies did not simply abandon capital controls after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. Martino Comelli and Pedro Perfeito Da Silva show that welfare states quietly took over their job.

Activists like Greta Thunberg and Patrisse Cullors can make citizens feel politically represented. Among marginalised groups in particular, this boosts democratic satisfaction. Pieter de Wilde, Andrea ...

Andy Burnham’s expected arrival in Downing Street may end Labour’s leadership crisis, but Dennis Shen says it has opened a far larger debate about Britain’s economic future. As markets assess the ...

What is happening to Türkiye's Republican People's Party (CHP) may look like an internal party dispute. It is not. On 21 May 2026, the 36th Civil Chamber of the Ankara Regional Court of Appeal ...