Europe’s centrist parties let industry rot and society fragment. Now they’re being punished for it
In Italy, France, Germany and Britain, the flight of voters to the political extremes can be mapped on to neglected…
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The death of local government
Westminster has been systematically stripping councils of power, funding and stature for decades. As a result, our local politics is…
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Sam Fowles: “So much of public debate is disconnected from the truth”
The barrister on Indiana Jones, David Guetta and why you should always go to the bathroom before going into court.
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The real problem with Joe Biden’s democracy summit
The urgent work to defend global democracy needs more than a Zoom call.
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The strange death of the centre right
In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?
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Kenneth Roth on Harvard fellowship controversy: “My biggest concern is for academic freedom”
Although the university has reversed its block against the former head of Human Rights Watch, concerns over freedom of speech…
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Maria Ressa: “The law was bent to the point that it was broken”
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist on why Big Tech rewards disinformation, and how to fight back.
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The business-lounge intellectual
With his new book, the FT’s Martin Wolf wants to rescue capitalism. But is it worth saving?
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How to get on with your political opponents
Ultimately, what matters is not whether someone is principled, but whether they have been promoting genuinely good things.
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Do capitalism and democracy go together?
Capitalists' acquiescence to electoral democracy follows from their distinctive political interests, and is strictly conditional.
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What will Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid mean for American democracy?
The former president’s attempted comeback may embolden Americans to pull back further from the brink or deepen the country’s woes.
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Has the plot to subvert American democracy been averted?
Trump-endorsed, election-denying candidates have flopped. Bigly.
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To save democracy, Americans need to hang out more
The midterms suggest that Alexis de Tocqueville’s 200-year-old warnings about American individualism have come true.
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Will America’s Gen Z save the world?
Younger voters have helped prevent the spread of illiberalism in the US’s midterm elections.
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Why the 2022 US midterms matter
For those who remain unconvinced.
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Pennsylvania’s midterm race is everything that’s wrong with American politics
Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor, revels in conspiratorial and far-right rhetoric. And his party is OK with that.
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“Justice cannot be the lodestar of a new society”
The American sociologist Dylan Riley on fascism, thinking as therapy and the crisis of capitalist democracy.
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“This is the big battle”: Jan Schakowsky on abortion in America
The US congresswoman explains how the threat to reproductive rights comes from the same place as the Republicans’ dismissal of…
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We look to the young for a better future – but they are turning away from democracy
Hostility to democracy runs deep because the establishment has failed to uphold its side of the bargain.
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Liz Truss has no moral right to be prime minister
The UK’s new leader represents only a tiny, secretive group of highly unrepresentative voters.
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