Fifteen years after the indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol, Madrid’s central plaza is once again the locus of a mass ...

It is a small irony of civilizational development that the people of Central and Eastern Europe gained access to foreign records and magazines at the dawn of the digital era, which would soon render ...

According to the polls, the Brazilian presidential race will be tight: with days to go before the first round of voting on 4 October, the two main candidates are in a dead heat. Four years ago, Luiz ...

Carney isn’t just positioning the country for the next election cycle; he is reshaping Canada’s place in the world for ...

This diary is a weather report primarily’, she writes in 1973. ‘The weather outside. It never alludes to the weather in us.’ At the risk of sounding ungrateful, the lavish production of the book – ...

There they all are, gathered around the table of the CNBC studio. The giants, the big names who really matter – the bosses. Breaking news, live coverage, news ticker along the bottom of the screen. An ...

Prospective biographers of Victor Serge begin at a disadvantage. Memoirs of a Revolutionary (1951) is one of the great autobiographies of the last century, vividly recounting the twists and turns – ...

What does it mean to say we are in a ‘polycrisis’? Under an increasingly undemocratic capitalism, the countries of the rich world all confront a similar bundle of crises that have sprung up more or ...

The AI investment boom – whether or not it is, as I tend to believe, a bubble – is a vivid demonstration of how misleading it is to characterize capitalism as a ‘market economy’. The system’s ...

In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...