Former President of the EU Parliament Martin Schulz on defending democracy, the importance of honest communication and ...
Has Europe’s crackdown on free speech become a bigger threat to democracy than ‘the extremists’ it seeks to contain?
Former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin on the fragile ceasefire and how Israel’s 2026 elections could shift the ...
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Jacob Mchangama

Danish lawyer, executive director of the Future of Free Speech Project at Vanderbilt University, and senior fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He is the author of Free ...
The current ‘peace plan’ is less about conflict settlement than about the Kremlin’s fears and its desire to control Ukraine ...
Electoral dysfunction across the continent tells the same story: citizens are convinced that democratic procedures serve ...
The corruption scandal in the country continues to spread, and the pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy is mounting. On Friday, ...
The election results in Honduras are still uncertain. But one thing is certain — the ruling left-wing party has suffered a ...
The long decline of social democracy began with the ‘Third Way’. Since then, it has been searching for a new direction ...
The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only ...
The UN Climate Change Conference in Baku was shaken right at the start by the announcement that US President-elect Donald Trump was planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement once again.
With the disappointment of the 2023 counteroffensive and the shift to a brutal attritional war, the mood has darkened in the pro-Ukrainian information space. The West’s dramatic isolation over the ...