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Online abuse is no longer a problem that happens somewhere at the margins of childhood. It is part of the environment in which young people grow up, learn, socialize and build relationships. Yet, much of this abuse remains unseen.

You may have heard about blackouts in Ukraine. The threat of a winter energy collapse has been a recurring reality for Ukrainians for a while now. Russia began its systematic campaign against Ukraine’s energy system in the fall of 2022. At the time, large-scale missile and drone strikes caused power, heating, and communications outages lasting for hours across the country.

The protests that began in Ukraine in July 2026 are often described simply as demonstrations demanding the return of former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. This is only partly accurate.

What makes a civilization thrive and why do civilizations collapse? Is human nature inherently good and it is actually institutions that are simply oppressive? What did Thomas Hobbes get wrong in his reasoning? And what are \'Goliaths\'? Leszek Jazdzewski (Fundacja Liberte!) talks with Luke Kemp, who researches the end of the world.

What structural strategies must the political center implement to effectively reclaim the future for liberal democracy? How can governance bodies connect abstract concepts to the everyday lived experiences of citizens? What distinct emotional promises allow the populist right wing to capture public dissatisfaction so effectively across Europe? And how does the algorithmic, endless design of modern news feeds erode public trust and dismantle our capacity for reasoned political debate?

It is safe to conclude that Fidesz’s dominance was not sustained through policy persuasion alone, but through a political environment in which potential alternatives were systematically delegitimized before they could gain sufficient traction.

In mid-May, opposition MPs in Slovakia submitted a bill on healthcare fees to parliament. A few days later came a signal from the ministry that it was preparing changes to so-called \"supplementary office hours\" – likely connected to the same issue.

Finding a Slovak politician willing to comment on the new EU budget proposal is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Unfortunately, the topic dominating the news these days is more whether the Commission might halt the money pipeline over resolutions from the European Parliament. Yet, a meeting in Brussels has since taken place that could well decide the budget\'s fate.

Ever since the 2000s, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party had focused on the media; they considered control over the press as a major ingredient to success. Unlike the previous Socialist government who had had capital salvaged from the times of Hungary’s transition to democracy, Fidesz did not have their own press outlets.

Two world-renowned economists, Stiglitz and Piketty, have come out of the closet. They have admitted to the world that they are degrowthers. Writing in The Guardian, they argue that \"economic growth is a doomed strategy.\"