Articles

O complexo de vira-lata

From football to foreign policy, Brazil’s inferiority complex travels well.

Lara Solberg

The most powerful climate change solution already exists

It's hot. It's new. It's Direct Air Capture. This potential solution to climate change is being hailed by Silicon Valley …

Jeremie Kasongo

The political stage

At festivals like Glastonbury and Boomtown, activism is louder than ever. But is it just part of the act?

Vittoria Cortese

Leaving Russia behind

Ukraine’s cultural and linguistic shift from Russia is a powerful act of identity and resistance — but one that Moscow …

Ksenia Martova

The painful price Colombia pays for political unrest

A senator’s assassination shakes Colombia, unsettling markets and reviving fears of instability.

Maria Camila Fernandez Giraldo

Charlemagne and the EU’s ancestral imagination

The European Union appeals to Charlemagne for identity, but history offers fewer solutions than the future.

Maxime Bouchet

From Kabul to Kyiv

Moscow’s history of proxy wars reveals the dangers of imperial ambition.

Arunabh Chakravorty

Will Duterte’s arrest change Filipino political consciousness?

Duterte’s arrest forces the Philippines to confront its long affair with strongmen. It will be up to Filipinos to choose …

Jan Louis Layacan

Financing 'Made in Italy'

Italy’s economy is built on family-run SMEs. Will they loosen their grip for growth?

Luigi Marsero

How ESG became the new tool of global power

ESG began as a moral compass for businesses. Today it is wielded as a weapon in trade wars, diplomacy, and …

Anthea Grech