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A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.

France is set to make decisive political choices in the coming year.

After 16 years of illiberal rule, Péter Magyar must rebuild Hungarian democracy without breaking its own constitutional rules.

Europe’s industrial transition risks becoming a social tsunami; only binding labour guarantees, not soft coordination, can prevent it.

The help and the harm are a single event, and at the level of institutions, AI is already draining the judgement on which good government depends.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we communicate, access information, and work, how income and status are distributed, and even how we wage war.

An IPO engineered for rapid index inclusion turns ordinary pension savers into involuntary financiers of Elon Musk’s fantasies.

As central banks squeeze households, corporations protect their margins — and the European social model pays the price.

Central banks are again poised to raise rates against an oil-shock inflation — and again the costs will dwarf the effects.

Adaptation schemes built for the informed and well-off keep failing those most exposed to climate shocks.

Labour bleeds four voters to the left for every one it loses to Reform — and cannot explain why.

His reflexive defence of Israel contradicts the universal principles his life’s work was built to uphold.

A single code word — “Omnibus” — now drives the most sweeping rewrite of European law in the Union’s history.

Sociology has not surrendered its public voice to philosophy. It has lost the illusion that it speaks from nowhere.