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Monday 31/December/2018 14:35 PM

Carbon taxes at the barricades

For governments everywhere, the shadow of the gilets jaunes (“yellow vests”), whose protests wracked France for several Saturdays before Christmas, now...

Sunday 30/December/2018 14:47 PM

Is cancelling Brexit now inevitable?

In times of political turmoil, events can move from impossible to inevitable without even passing through improbable. In early 2016, the idea of Britain...

Sunday 30/December/2018 14:45 PM

The center left and globalization

Popular uprisings across France are threatening to shatter the hope that so many had placed in French President Emmanuel Macron after his election in May...

Sunday 30/December/2018 14:42 PM

Politics, economics, and carbon in 2019

For many of the world’s economies, financial markets, heads of government, and carbon policies, 2018 did not end well. The scars of the global financial...

Sunday 30/December/2018 14:30 PM

China’s myth-busting miracle

Forty years ago, on December 29, 1978, the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China released the official communiqué from its third plenary...

Saturday 29/December/2018 15:09 PM

Turning Brexit into a celebration of democracy

Discontent without end looms over Britain. Leavers and Remainers are equally despondent. Her Majesty’s Government and the Labour opposition are equally...

Wednesday 26/December/2018 15:21 PM

Apocalypse Trump

For those who hadn’t yet figured it out, the price of having a US president who disdains expert opinion and who is impulsive, mendacious, not very smart,...