Why Lula's Legacy Is Costing Brazil's Left
Brazil's left suffered a crushing election defeat in 2026. Lula's refusal to groom a successor turned a movement into a one-man show — and now it's paying the price.
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Sam Altman Wants You to Bear AI's Risks
Sam Altman says society must accept AI's harms for its benefits — but OpenAI keeps the profits. Who really pays the price for the AI arms race?
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Transatlantic Alliance Needs Society, Not Just Governments
Canada and Europe's transatlantic alliance needs deep civil society roots, not just strategic government pacts, to endure beyond the next election cycle.
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Why Bombing Campaigns Don't Break Civilian Morale
Putin's relentless drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian cities mirror a strategy that history shows rarely crushes civilian morale. Here's why it fails.
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Chasing Farage Is Killing the Tories' Comeback
Kemi Badenoch's rightward lurch to win Reform voters is pushing blue wall moderates further away — and making a Conservative majority mathematically impossible.
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Iran Is Winning Battles but Losing the Long Game
Iran's maximalist strategy may yield short-term gains, but risks squandering a historic opportunity for relief, normalization, and a durable regional balance.
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Russia's UN Security Council Seat Was Never Legal
Russia never followed UN Charter procedures when it claimed the Soviet Union's Security Council seat in 1991. Here's why that legal fiction matters now.
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Cable Street at 90: Solidarity Over Memory
Ninety years after the Battle of Cable Street, the antifascist lesson isn't nostalgia — it's solidarity. Why divided communities must unite again today.
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Labour's Leasehold Promise: Reform or Empty Words?
Labour vowed to end England's feudal leasehold system. Two years on, a complaints regulator is not the leasehold reform millions of trapped homeowners were promised.
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App Store Racket: Why Won't the CMA Act?
Apple and Google's app store duopoly costs consumers and developers billions. The CMA has powers to intervene — so why is it holding back on app store reform?
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Stop Calling Everything a 'Girl' Thing | Opinion
The 'girl dinner' and 'girl walk' trend infantilises adult women. Here's why gendering everyday activities is a feminist issue worth confronting.
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Andy Burnham: Is His Charm His Biggest Problem?
Andy Burnham is charming and politically ruthless — but can Labour's next chapter turn ambitious talk into real, structural change for Britain?
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