
California Rewrites the Welfare State While Europe Looks Away
Christophe Sente and Timothée Duverger
Trump and Sanders now converge on sovereign funds holding corporate shares, scrambling familiar ideological lines.
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Christophe Sente is a fellow of Cevipol (Centre d’Étude de la Vie politique) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His areas of interest include the history of ideas, the evolution of party systems and the transformations of democracy.

Christophe Sente and Timothée Duverger
Trump and Sanders now converge on sovereign funds holding corporate shares, scrambling familiar ideological lines.

Europe’s leading public intellectual offers a flawed, Eurocentric reading of US politics that obscures more than it reveals.

The European Union faces an existential choice: succumb to economic nationalism or forge a new transatlantic order.

French voters may have been recalled for a snap domestic election—but the underlying trends have been decades in the making.

Anxiety about the state of democracy amid political polarisation should direct us to an unexpected answer—economic citizenship.

Christophe Sente and Christopher Mackin
Beyond the new electoral formation, a potential avenue is open to democratise work.

Christophe Sente and Timothée Duverger
Social democracy is flatlining in a France which otherwise betrays common European features.

Christophe Sente and Timothée Duverger
The old left was too slow to see beyond materialist consumption. But an ecosocialism can underpin coalitions with the green parties which filled the gap.