On a continent whose politics is poisoned by fear of non-white, Muslim immigration, the German cabinet relaxed the rules for jobseekers from beyond the European Union.

From the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro to the upcoming Indian election, 2019 is set to be an eventful year.

What does it say when Brazil’s new president has a guru with especially tough views against globalism, Islam, communists and the leftist sphere?

Was 2018 an especially bad year for good governance? Journalist Leonid Bershidsky seems to think so in an insightful piece for Bloomberg.

In France, the yellow vests have rioted against a fuel tax, but Canada’s carbon levy will make people richer.

The most visited country in the world, France prides itself on being a lifestyle superpower, where a crusty baguette and wedge of good cheese are civilisational markers. But, after a month of Yellow Vest protests, tourists are wary.

Spy agencies in the United Kingdom have long recruited from Oxbridge students.

Could a single German regional election be a hopeful template for tomorrow?

A surprising number of Brazilian voters were willing to go along with some of the more outrageous claims by far-right front-runner Jair Bolsonaro. Why?

For this unprecedented moment to really matter, concrete changes must be made all over the world.

In 2018, the United States’ game on international relations is a real-time Risk without rules. Without rules, the game is no longer worth playing.

Rashmee Roshan Lall on whether Donald Trump intends to lead the white Christian peoples of the world in a racial and religious war.

Will European values come to symbolise exclusivism rather than enlightenment values?

The unblinking focus on migration is unwarranted, Rashmee Roshan Lall argues.

The world is being carved up between the two largest economies (the US and China) and the two largest nuclear powers (the US and Russia).

Zero tolerance of migrants has become a moral crisis for the U.S., but it is providing a template for a different, darker, new American dream.