Jan 04, 2024 04:36 am UTC| Politics
Logically, authoritarianism and libertarianism are contradictory. Supporters of authoritarian leaders share a state of mind in which they take direction from an idealised figurehead and closely identify with the group...
Will the supply-and-confidence deal between the Liberals and NDP survive in 2024?
Jan 01, 2024 12:09 pm UTC| Politics
Signed in March 2022, the supply-and-confidence agreement between the governing Liberals and the opposition New Democrats has already led to significant social policy expansion, including the adoption of the Canadian...
From Blue Pacific to Indo-Pacific: how politics and language define our ‘Indigenous ocean’
Jan 01, 2024 12:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This is an edited extract from An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays by Damon Salesa (Bridget Williams Books) In September 2017, at the 48th meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, the political leaders of the Pacific...
India’s new manual for water supply will replicate past failures
Dec 26, 2023 23:16 pm UTC| Politics Economy
Water utilities in India supply residents with water for an average of only four hours per day. Within cities, some neighbourhoods receive water almost all the time, while some receive less than half an hour per...
As France moves to limit the rights of migrants, research reveals just how reliant on them it is
Dec 26, 2023 23:15 pm UTC| Politics Insights & Views
Once again, France finds itself in the grip of a political crisis. After the pension reform of June, which prompted more than one million people to take to the streets, president Emmanuel Macrons framework immigration bill...
Six books (and one play) to read to understand British politics today
Dec 26, 2023 23:14 pm UTC| Politics
With a general election on the horizon in 2024, this holiday season is a good time to curl up with a book that explains the state of British politics and society today. We asked politics experts for their...
Dec 26, 2023 23:08 pm UTC| Politics
Recent polling suggests that Joe Bidens policy of backing Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian war is hurting him in the eyes of American Muslims. An #AbandonBiden campaign was launched by Muslim voters in Minnesota in...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
The Mattei Plan: why Giorgia Meloni is looking to Africa
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight