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  • King Charles III and Pope Leo XIV Mark a New Chapter in Ecumenism
    Massimo Faggioli 11 November 2025
    The meeting between King Charles III, the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and Pope Leo XIV, the leader of the Catholic Church, was history-making. The British monarch had met the pope before in the previous century, beginning with King Edward VII and Leo XIII in 1903, until Elizabeth II and Pope Francis met in 2014. But in the past, visits made by the British monarch to the Vatican were labelled “informal” or “private visits”, thus sidestepping the political, diplomatic, and ecumenical complications surrounding the meeting of the leaders of two officially separated (since Henry VIII’s decision in 1534) branches of the Christian family.
  • Toward a Reparative Democracy
    Wendy Brown 31 October 2025
    With no clear vision for a lasting peace in Palestine, and private interests winding ever deeper into the fabric of public life, there appear to be no real bulwarks left to counter the dangers threatening our shared future. Liberal democracy no longer seems to possess the vitality needed to protect the very institutions that once sustained it. Between war and accelerating climate breakdown, how can we place people—rather than markets or power blocs—back at the center of democracy? Wendy Brown, of the Institute for Advanced Studies, spoke with Reset DOC about her idea of reparative democracy—a post-liberal vision for renewing democracy in the face of rising authoritarianism, ecological collapse, and the exhaustion of the liberal order.
  • As U.S. Hegemony Founders, can the E.U. Step up to the Plate?
    Michele Salvati 31 October 2025
    The democracies born in the last century are facing a deep crisis. Rivalries among factions of transnational capital and between states are reshaping the relationship between economics and politics in chaotic and unpredictable ways. As U.S. hegemony wavers, and Europe seeks greater autonomy, nationalism and authoritarian tendencies are resurfacing. In this unsettled landscape, the Left struggles to find a common voice, while new social and cultural energies are trying to imagine a future in which freedom is no longer a privilege of the market. On these issues, Reset DOC spoke with Michele Salvati, emeritus professor of Political Economy at the University of Milan.
  • Financial Wars and the New Global Disorder
    Alessandro Volpi 31 October 2025
    Given the current context of financial conflicts, it is essential to distinguish between the market—conceived as a mechanism for the fair and efficient allocation of resources—and capitalism, which, defined by its relentless pursuit of profit, has generated significant distortions in the “normal” functioning of the market and triggered a multi-level global tension, most notably in the financial sphere. The emergence of this new world, in which the two concepts have become entirely decoupled, began in December 2001. Twenty years after the Reagan administration’s decision to steer the world toward the liberalization of capital flows, Bill Clinton’s long-pursued project to integrate China into the international market—through its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO)—was finally realized.
  • Trump’s Power Politics in Latin America Beyond Venezuela
    Andre Diniz Pagliarini 16 October 2025
    Donald Trump insists he wants no “new wars.” In Latin America, however, that line is wearing thin. His administration has revived the language and logic of forceful intervention even as he maintains that the era of U.S. adventurism abroad is over. The result is a foreign policy that races to prop up allies like Argentina’s Javier Milei and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro while threatening adversaries like Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro.
  • Brazil Shows Accountability Works: A Lesson for the US
    Andre Diniz Pagliarini 30 September 2025
    Earlier this month, Brazil did something the United States couldn’t: it punished a president who tried to overturn an election. Jair Bolsonaro lost in 2022, claimed fraud, encouraged his supporters to storm Brasília, and is now serving a 27-year sentence for subverting democracy. Donald Trump lost in 2020, made nearly identical false claims, watched as his most fervent supporters sacked the U.S. Capitol—and he’s back in the White House. That contrast is telling. It goes to the heart of whether democracies can enforce the rules that make them democracies in the first place. Brazil’s message is clear: accountability is possible, even in a deeply polarized society. The United States’ is equally stark: polarization can become an alibi for impunity.
  • Can China’s Global Governance Initiative Adapt the World Order to Multipolarity?
    Seán Golden 12 September 2025
    China marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II (WWII) with an orchestrated set of events designed to visualize how much the current world order has changed. It convened a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that included Xi Jinping’s announcement of a Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议 Quanqiu zhili changyi), and staged a massive military parade that highlighted the advanced technology of China’s armed forces. Donald Trump’s typically hostile and narcissistic reaction showed how successful it had been.
  • The Price of Partnership: Can South Africa Trust Washington Again?
    Rabia Turnbull 9 September 2025
    On a crisp morning in Citrusdal, trucks brimming with oranges idled under the blazing South African sun, farmers watched helplessly as port authorities halted shipments to the United States. A new 30 percent tariff, one of the highest imposed by the Trump administration, had shut off access to one of South Africa’s largest export markets. For families whose livelihoods depend on agriculture, the shock was immediate, putting an estimated 30,000 jobs at risk.
  • Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a Boon to Democrats,
    but Don’t Expect them to Seize the Moment
    Hussein Ibish 7 July 2025
    The U.S. has never been short of hideous or harebrained legislation from both liberals and conservatives. But President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Budget Bill,” passed on Thursday by Congress, outdoes anything in living memory. In one gigantic sweep, it enacts at least four major national initiatives, each of which would alone qualify as among the most appalling legislative acts in modern American history.
  • The LA Protests Are What Donald Trump Has Been Waiting For
    Hussein Ibish 16 June 2025
    It’s a real-life film noir in the City of Angels. U.S. President Donald Trump is once again hurling Americans through the looking glass, this time – fittingly – in Los Angeles. It feels lifted from 1930s hard-boiled pulp fiction in which nothing is as it appears and everything is the inverse of what powerful men assert. It’s genuinely shocking, while also seemingly inevitable, that U.S. military forces are being deployed to major cities with the express purpose of trying to intimidate, quash, and, ultimately, violently confront Americans who dare raise their voices against Mr. Trump’s policies and practices. It is one of the most significant inflection points since the last election took America on the road away from constitutional democracy and towards the kind of repressive lawlessness this President admires in other leaders and is seeking to emulate in the U.S.
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