How much do people trust that their governments are doing the right thing? Trust in the institutions, confidence in the path toward economic prosperity, shifts in trust from authorities to peers, trust in media, transparency and accountability, rule...
Image: qso.com.auJust like the anecdote that so many times they mistakenly said that the wolf was coming and when it finally arrived nobody believed it, we could be in recession.The accelerated increase in interest rates should be causing the...
Photo: Faruk Tokluoğlu on PexelsAntonio NavalónThe various modifications of European borders throughout history can be likened to open-heart surgery. Since the Greeks and since the time of the Roman Empire, there has never been a peaceful alteration of Europe's...
Map: on sciencedirect.comJuan VilloroThe Earth is burning. After the coronavirus pandemic, global warming is advancing as an irreversible threat. The dramatic thing is not that the summer of 2023 will be particularly torrid but that it will be the...
Image: on upnorth.euRicardo Pascoe PierceVladimir Putin faces the Frankenstein he has created. The dictator has been confronted by the military method of governance he has deified. Brute force as a raison d'état. The rebellion of the Russian mercenaries has...
https://youtu.be/lTu_TL9INUIImagine an American president capable of making such a speech in 2022, a speech designed to reduce tensions over Ukraine and to bring peace there rather than the humiliation of Russia and Putin, as every Western action seems designed...
https://youtu.be/EMXnJMCoFYIA Wall Street Journal DocumentaryThe Wall Street Journal’s latest documentary, “Shadow Men: Inside Russia’s Secret War Company,” goes deep inside the lethal global expansion of the Russian private military company Wagner — tracing the group's evolution from a small,...