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A car with a picture of Donald Trump in the window and a sign that says 'Trump low prices, Kamala high prices'

Opinion: People Won’t Care About Democracy If Democracy Doesn’t Care About Them

Kojo Koram

Whether Trump or Orban, Modi or Milei, states whose primary beneficiaries aren’t their own citizens but a transnational investor class inevitably opt out of liberal democracy, writes Kojo Koram. Why are Democrats so surprised by this?

Young children push themselves through the steel bars of a border fence

Opinion: On Migration, the Polish Left Has All But Given Up

Dan Davison & Ewa Pospieszyńska

Rather than challenge far-right xenophobia head-on, the Polish left is swerving it, while advising voters to skip the upcoming immigration referendums. This spineless avoidance serves nobody, write Ewa Pospieszyńska and Dan Davison.

a man in a white shirt and black trousers does the peace sign with both hands before a crowd of people holding EU flags and banners

Report: Donald Tusk Gives Polish Leftists the Ick. They Might Have to Get Over It

Ana Oppenheim

On Sunday, half a million people took to the streets of Warsaw to hear Donald Tusk rail against the government. The march presented a dilemma for the Polish left, torn between its disdain for continental Thatcherites like Tusk and its hatred of the far-right incumbents. Ana Oppenheim reports.

Opinion: Travelling Across Poland Showed Me That Britain’s Economy Is Broken

Aaron Bastani

The UK is increasingly just a middle-income country with a smattering of rich people. Visit anywhere else in Europe and you’ll see what I mean, writes Aaron Bastani.

A man in a beanie and black glasses loads a large pot wrapped in a tea towel into his car boot

Report: Inside the Volunteer Networks Sustaining Ukraine

Volodya Vagner

Putin claimed there was no Ukrainian nation. Well, there certainly is one now. Volodya Vagner reports from Lviv on the massive popular mobilisation the war has prompted.

A protester in London opposing Poland's abortion ban

Opinion: Poland’s Pro-Choice Protests Are Radicalising a Generation

Ana Oppenheim

Attempts to outlaw abortion in Poland appear to have strengthened the country's growing pro-choice movement, writes Ana Oppenheim. Women across the country, many of whom never before saw themselves as activists, are learning what it means to defy authority and stand up for their rights.

International: Why is Poland So Conservative?

Earlier this month, Poland’s incumbent president Andrzej Duda was re-elected following a campaign centred around defending ‘family values’ and demonising the LGBT community. Ana Oppenheim explains the background to the election - and why the nation is so conservative.