Sanders and Trump supporters have this quality in common. So do other populist voters. Matthijs Rooduijn, Gijs Schumacher, and Bert N. Bakker - February 21, 2020 Here’s a trait you may not have heard of before
Index funds might sound boring. But who decides which countries and companies to include? Johannes Petry, Jan Fichtner, and Eelke Heemskerk - January 8, 2020 Index providers wield a lot of power in global finance — and that raises big political questions.
Colombia’s historic peace agreement with the FARC is fraying. We talked to 1,700 Colombians to understand why. Michael Weintraub, Marianne Dahl, Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Håvard Nygård, and Abbey Steele - August 5, 2019 Can the peace agreement hold?
Ireland is a tax haven — and that’s becoming controversial at home Aidan Regan - April 24, 2019 The Central Bank of Ireland stands in Dublin. (Jason Alden/Bloomberg
New study of 381,000 political speeches finds that liberals use more complex language than conservatives Martijn Schoonvelde, Gijs Schumacher, Bert N. Bakker, and Anna Brosius - March 3, 2019 We examined the sentences of politicians in four countries.
Russia is building a new Napster — but for academic research Joe Karaganis and Balazs Bodo - July 13, 2018 [caption id="attachment_75613" align="aligncenter" width="960"] (iStock)[/caption] What will future historians see
It’s radicals, not centrists, who are really more hostile to democracy Matthijs Rooduijn - June 12, 2018 [caption id="attachment_64714" align="aligncenter" width="960"] (David Goldman/AP)[/caption] In a thought-provoking opinion
Hungary’s government is increasingly autocratic. What is the European Parliament doing about it? Maurits Meijers and Harmen van der Veer - May 3, 2017 On April 5, the Hungarian parliament passed a law that
Four years after one of the worst industrial accidents ever, what have we learned? Sijeong Lim and Aseem Prakash - April 24, 2017 [caption id="attachment_57147" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A Bangladeshi survivor is lifted out
Somali pirates just hijacked an oil tanker. Here’s what pirates want — and where they strike. Ursula Daxecker, Brandon Prins, and Anup Phayal - March 14, 2017 [caption id="attachment_52619" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A Philippine Coast Guard boat, left,