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As political campaigns around the world have elevated identity issues, we ask: is Brexit a symptom or a cause of a new culture war? How should we respond?

Here, we examine the support for Donald Trump at the local level across the US to assess the importance of these factors: in particular, inter-regional and inter-personal inequalities

Join us for this online public conversation with Iain Dale about his new book, Why Can’t We All Get Along: Shout Less, Listen More.

Join Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses his new book, The World: A Brief Introduction, and the current state of the world - how we got here, where we're heading, and what it means for all of us.

This discussion will contrast diverse approaches to thinking about the digital world in relation to children and youth.

Join us for this online public event with Tim Harford on the day his new book, How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers, is published.

Join Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis, authors of Accountable: How we Can Save Capitalism, for this event about their new book.

A discussion between Paul Collier and John Kay about their new book, Greed is Dead: Politics After Individualism.

This event focuses on how climate finance and the role faith communities might play in global system change, both in the strategic use of their capital assets and their moral and social capital.

In this talk, Christian Busch reveals the secrets behind the hidden force that rules the universe: serendipity.

Michael Sandel discusses his latest book, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

This event discusses the next decade of the Women, Peace and Security agenda.

In the wake of the coronavirus, this episode of LSE IQ explores whether society can afford the super-rich.

Seven million people die of air pollution, worldwide, every year. This episode of LSE IQ asks how this invisible killer can be tackled.

Anne Applebaum discusses her new book, Twilight of Democracy.

Until COVID-19 hit, populist politicians of the right and the left –many of them with evident authoritarian leanings— were on the rise around the world.

The selection of the World Trade Organization's new Director General presents an opportunity for reform, but it could also result in a further weakening of the institution.

How well has the UK news media kept the public informed and held the authorities to account during the COVID-19 crisis?

Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Silvana Tenreyro discusses some of the emerging academic research on the macroeconomics of COVID-19, including how it has influenced her recent monetary policy decisions.

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges-from both the left and the right.

The UK government’s response to COVID-19 has seen sudden growth in public spending accompanied by a sharp fall in tax receipts.

The COVID-19 pandemic has decimated government fiscal policies across the globe, and economies worldwide are heading into historic recessions.

LSE and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) discuss the policies to fight the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Envision a world that moves in only one direction: forward. A world where inequality is shrinking.

Climate litigation has been used as a strategic tool to advance climate policy goals for at least three decades.