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.

 ATHENS — The Olympic 100 metre final is about to begin. The crowd roars at the sound of the starting gun. The sprinters are off. But, after 30 metres, the frontrunners slow down, as if in solidarity with the laggards.

ATHENS — On August 12, something extraordinary happened. The news broke that, in the first seven months of 2020, the United Kingdom’s economy had suffered its largest contraction ever, a drop in national income exceeding 20 per cent.

ATHENS — During the worst clashes between the Greek and German governments amid the euro crisis, a German official attempted to dissuade me from insisting on debt relief for Greece with the argument that Germany may be rich, but a majority of its people are poor.

ATHENS — The euro crisis that erupted a decade ago has long been portrayed as a clash between Europe’s frugal North and profligate South.