The political cycle which began with the 2018 election of Sheinbaum’s predecessor and political mentor, Andrés Manuel López ...

The idea of ‘grown-up politics’ is a recurring motif of these supposed moderates. In the second of her speeches, Hurwitz ...

When will they ever learn?’ the song’s lyrics asks, transforming what could have been a useful fiction about conspiracy and ...

Having never previously aligned themselves with either the left or right bloc, the Greens successfully pivoted to the left in this election, making headway on the issues of oil and Palestine. The ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, although it is one-sided, because as usual in such cases, Israel ...

The neo-Schumpeterian approach of Philippe Aghion – co-author of The Power of Creative Destruction (2021), among many other books – has had a significant influence on European economic policy since ...

The gallery of grotesques assembled by Trump – only the toga was missing in his rendering of the Roman Emperor Nero – at Sharm-el-Sheikh, the Egyptian resort synonymous with luxury and despotism, ...

Three and half years ago, the EU suddenly remembered that Moldova exists. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine meant that overnight, Moldova had become a frontline state. The small country of 2.4 million ...

A general strike erupted across Italy on Monday and some half a million people took to the streets in one of Europe’s largest mobilisations against the war on Gaza. Actions took place in at least 75 ...

‘If you want to be a great politician, you need great troubles; petty troubles are for petty politicians.’ So declared Nicolas Sarkozy in 2018, leaping to the defence of his protégé Gérald Darmanin – ...

Ancient Roman historians often told the story of how a small, rather undistinguished city-state in central Italy became a huge empire exclusively by fighting defensive wars. At school everyone used to ...

Preparations for the founding conference of Britain’s new socialist party – provisionally named ‘Your Party’ – are underway. More than 800,000 people have registered as supporters. Local groups, proto ...