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Running and shaping cities is among the most complex and challenging areas of public policy. What is it like to be a mayor?

The super-rich have never had it so good. But millions of us can’t afford a home, an education or a pension. And unless we change course soon, the future will be worse. Much worse.

All politics is local. In an increasingly complex and dynamic world of multiple and overlapping crises, local authorities often find themselves at the eye of a perfect storm.

Revolutionary Papers is an international, transdisciplinary research and teaching initiative on anticolonial, anti-imperial and related left periodicals of the Global South.

Are weight-loss jabs the answer to Britain’s obesity crisis? Should we be doing more to tackle the root causes?

Across Europe, the left – in its different variants - is facing an electoral challenge. The populist, nationalist right appears in the ascendancy, with predictions for its success in this year’s European Parliament elections.

As 'anti-gender' movements become more prominent globally, we ask Judith Butler and feminist activist Tooba Syed to share histories and forms of resistance.

China is a formidable and emerging power on the world stage, and its booming economy is the second largest in the world.

Prof John Sidel, Director of Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE, explains Indonesia's trajectory as a stable and consolidated democracy over the last 25 years and what the future likely holds.

In 2023 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Dr Jordan Tama, Provost Associate Professor at American University’s School of International Service about his new book, Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy: Cooperation in a Polarized Age.