Dear Colleagues,

I can’t remember any US midterms followed as closely (near-) globally as the ones that took place earlier this week. The epic Democrat victory was hands down the most joyful and important news of the week. Pleased to see that ‘green economic populism’ played a role, in addition to a strong anti-Trump sentiment (with many Americans in the mood to already “sunset” Donald altogether) and plenty of other factors (certainly including affordable health care). In recent months, a number of huge blows have been dealt  to the seemingly ‘unstoppable’ far right momentum. In line with a ‘learning health system’, could there also be such a thing as a ‘learning polity’…?

That doesn’t mean much yet for the upcoming French presidential elections, with Macron there in the role of ‘lightning rod’ (even if also not on the ticket). But at least it should be clear now wat (centre-) left should try to offer in the second round against Le Pen, in terms of discourse, policies &...