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Nima Sanandaji writes at National Review Online that Americans might want to think twice about adopting the social democracy of Nordic countries. Although Bernie Sanders failed to win the Democratic presidential nomination, the Vermont senator’s campaign...

Federal elections were held in Germany on September 22, 2013. All members of the Bundestag were up for reelection. Federal legislative power in Germany is shared between two legislative assemblies – of which the Bundestag is the most important...

H&M’s main shareholder Stefan Persson, avatar of Nordic cuddly capitalism. Photo illustration by Slate; Photo by Paul White/AFP/Getty Images America is a land of billionaires, boasting five of the 10 richest people on the planet as of the...

Across broad ideological lines, Americans now foresee a dismal, downwardly mobile future for the country’s middle and working classes. While previous generations generally did far better than their predecessors, those in the current one, outside...

The corporate jargon surrounding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal is about ‘protecting’ investment’, reducing ‘unnecessary’ barriers and ‘harmonising’ regulations that supposedly deter free trade between the US and the EU...