Progressive Governance: Rise or Demise – How Democracies Can Withstand Authoritarian Attacks
New “Talking Progress” Podcast episode: A conversation between Anne Applebaum and Wolfgang Schmidt
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Empowering Cities: Building Urban and Transatlantic Infrastructure
What are successful approaches and polices to the most pressing issues for German and US cities? How can cities and international networks strengthen the transatlantic partnership?
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Empowering Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Progress
City leaders share the same worries: Climate change, rising inequality, housing insecurity and health inequity, to name a few. They talk about working towards progress. But how can a city’s development in these areas really be assessed?
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If You Really Want The ‘Zeitenwende’, Listen to the EU’s North-Eastern Flank
Why defence isn’t merely a matter of military security and the ‘peace’ and ‘justice for Ukraine’ advocates are much more similar than they’d like to admit.
How Alliances Empower Progressive Governance
Lessons from progressives in Europe and North America
This was the Progressive Governance Summit 2022
How can the progressive camp respond to the poly crisis? This was the central question addressed by top international politicians at the Progressive Governance Summit in Berlin.
The Left’s Fatal Longing for Life as Usual
Why our failure to resist Putin enthusiastically will haunt us and how we can overcome it.
A Trade Unionist’s Guide to Shaping a Just Transition
What we need to combine ambitious climate policies with fair pay, decent work, and equitable prosperity.
Another Democratic Future is Possible
What is wrong with elections today, and why we should choose our political representatives by lottery instead
The Progressive Dilemma: Social Europe at a Crossroads
How populism and the twin shocks of 2016 have, at the same time, bolstered and smothered EU incentives for more social integration
On Progressive Infrastructure
“It is quite simple. If in doubt, do not do it.” Urban economist Ramon Marrades on how to build progressive infrastructure.