ATHENS — This is how capitalism ends: not with a revolutionary bang, but with an evolutionary whimper.

ATHENS — Back in the 1830s, Thomas Peel decided to migrate from England to Swan River in Western Australia.

ATHENS — Europe has discovered its moral Rubicon, the frontier beyond which commodification becomes intolerable.

ATHENS — Imagine that the coronavirus pandemic, rather than undermining confidence in the European Union, had strengthened it. Imagine that COVID-19 had persuaded EU leaders to overcome years of acrimony and fragmentation.

ATHENS  —  US President Joe Biden, facing the great challenge of stimulating his country’s economy for the post-pandemic era, and haunted by then-President Barack Obama’s tepid stimulus in the face of the Great Recession a decade ago, has decided to err on the side of o

ATHENS  —  Former US President Donald Trump’s opponents call him a liar. But Trump is far worse than a liar. Many politicians lie to cover up inconvenient truths.

ATHENS — A house of cards. A set of lies we have unconsciously accepted. That is what our certainties seem like during profound crises. Such episodes shock us into recognising how unsafe our assumptions are.

ATHENS — “This is no time for sadness, we are too pissed off,” the head of an intensive care unit at a hospital in my Thessaloniki constituency told me recently.

ATHENS — October 7 was a good day for democrats.