Martti Ahtisaari, ex-Finland president and Nobel peace laureate, dies aged 86 politics Article 504 words 7 votes
New Zealand in political limbo as National considers shape of coalition politics Article 641 words 6 votes
How Lars Findsen and Claus Hjort Frederiksen came to be facing trial for allegedly disclosing Danish state secrets that had been in the public domain for years politics Article 2828 words 10 votes
‘Once we win California, the nation is next’: What a caste discrimination ban means for Americans politics Article 1335 words 19 votes
Europe’s rightward drift is not set in stone: our new research should give hope to the left politics Article 1472 words 12 votes
Trial of Brazil's alleged 8 January insurrectionists opens in supreme court politics Article 715 words 11 votes
Naomi Klein on following her ‘doppelganger’ down the conspiracy rabbit hole – and why millions of people have entered an alternative political reality politics Article 6276 words, published Aug 26 2023 41 votes
Orkney could leave the UK to become a self-governing territory of Norway after its council opted to explore alternative forms of governance politics Article 396 words 23 votes
Protesters gather in Helsinki over ministers' far-right links – several hundred people protest against new rightwing administration's austerity and immigration-cutting programme politics Article 984 words 10 votes
The invasion of Iraq was a turning point on to a path that led towards Ukraine politics Article 1030 words 9 votes
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accuses Jair Bolsonaro of genocide against Yanomami in Brazilian Amazon politics Article 775 words 6 votes
Setback for EU migration plans as Sweden assumes bloc's presidency – Swedish government thought to be reluctant to alienate far-right Sverigedemokraterna politics Article 1091 words 4 votes
'The Godfather, Saudi-style’: Inside the palace coup that brought MBS to power politics Article 4771 words 8 votes
‘These are conditions ripe for political violence’: How close is the US to civil war? politics Article 3701 words 8 votes
UN rebukes Finland for violating rights of its children held in Syria camps – child rights committee says Helsinki must do more to repatriate those detained politics Article 440 words 3 votes
Danish general election called after PM faces mink cull ultimatum – Mette Frederiksen bypasses vote of no confidence by calling 1 November ballot politics Article 245 words 3 votes
Far right's triumph in my country reveals a very Swedish brand of intolerance – political parties proved that our supposed liberalism is only skin deep politics Article 964 words 8 votes
China’s troll king: How a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism politics Article 5234 words 3 votes
Jailed for fifty-one weeks for protesting? Britain is becoming a police state by stealth politics Article 775 words 18 votes
Finland is the world's happiest nation and I want to keep it that way – Sanna Marin says she is determined to defend human rights, despite asylum policy challenges politics Article 863 words 6 votes
Pro-Vladimir Putin party maintains majority in Russian elections despite declining support, many results almost certainly rigged politics Article 688 words 15 votes
Jair Bolsonaro’s ‘banana republic’ military parade condemned by critics politics Article 806 words, published Aug 10 2021 8 votes
Tens of thousands of Brazilians march in upwards of 200 cities to demand Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment politics Article 645 words 19 votes
Kenan Malik: ‘By demonising asylum seekers, Denmark reflects a panic in social democracy’ politics Article 793 words 8 votes
Partner of Norway's former justice minister has been found guilty of threatening democracy – she faked attacks on her family home and the torching of her car politics Article 347 words 10 votes
Donald Trump heads for Georgia but claims of fraud may damage Senate Republicans politics Article 764 words 10 votes
How do we avoid future authoritarians? Winning back the working class is key. politics Article 969 words 16 votes
Finns aghast that Donald Trump could think their country is part of Russia – allegations in former US adviser John Bolton's White House memoir mocked on Finnish social media politics Article 358 words 10 votes
The crisis within conservatism: Since the 80s, the right has increasingly relied on media bubbles, wedge issues, resistance to social change and making electoral participation harder to hold power politics Article 3231 words, published May 28 2019 7 votes
The fight is on for progressives to push Biden to the left. They might just win. politics Article 9 votes
Swedish city of Lund to manure the parks on an earlier date to deter Walpurgi celebrations politics Article 429 words 10 votes
Militia strike gold to cast a shadow over Sudan's hopes of prosperity politics Article 2110 words 4 votes
Finland anoints Sanna Marin, thirty-four, as world's youngest serving prime minister politics Article 503 words 9 votes
Labour's spending plans aren't especially unusual – just look at Sweden politics Article 971 words 5 votes
The Danish centre-left aped the far right to win an election – there's a better way to deal with people's fears politics Article 965 words 9 votes
'The voice of the dirtbag left': Socialist US comics Chapo Trap House politics Article published Jun 3 2019 19 votes
Jeremy Corbyn backs referendum on Brexit deal after UK voter exodus politics Article 1114 words 12 votes
Brexit party may get more EU election votes than Tories and Labour combined politics Article 15 votes
How Brazil and South Africa became the world's most populist countries politics Article 1435 words 7 votes
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s grip on Turkey slips as opposition makes election gains politics Article 1207 words 12 votes
How a Slovakian neo-Nazi got elected. In 2013, Marian Kotleba won a shock victory in regional elections. Four years later, he was voted out in a landslide. But now he’s running for president. politics Article 6 votes
The noisy dispute over the meaning of populism is more than just an academic squabble – it’s a crucial argument about what we expect from democracy politics Article 12 votes