Category: The Conversation

  By Sumit Ganguly

  Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orban’s regime is a case in point

  The report by the World Meteorological Organisation shows that with large and rapid emissions cuts, we can still avoid the most severe climate change. But worryingly, we

  When we use ‘race’ we need to be very specific about what we mean. Race is not biology, nor is it class

  As grim as things are with the pandemic raging in the US and the mounting death toll, there are many reasons to be optimistic there will be

  Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images News that Sen. Kamala Harris was Joe Biden’s choice for the 2020 Democratic vice presidential nominee drove

  Reports describe a Hong Kong man who was reinfected with the coronavirus after returning from Europe. Does that mean he wasn’t immune after the first infection?

  Reports of rape, domestic abuse and murdered women are way up in Brazil, Mexico, Peru and beyond since the coronavirus

  Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance

  By Kieran Michael Conroy

  The gap between the continent’s most democratic and authoritarian regions is likely to continue to grow

  By Stephen Dobson & Muhammad Zuhdi

Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behaviour – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus’s

  By David Randles

  Unconditional emergency assistance for the world’s poorest could be funded by temporarily freezing debt repayments