But, in the Republican Party, he is utterly representative: the symptom and not the disease. 

Britons are set to head to polling stations, but Brexit is still dominating debate. Is it possible to avoid a re-run of the referendum and champion social democracy instead?

Enduring wars in the Middle East, sabre rattling between North Korea and the USA – how did pacificism become a dirty word, and is it time for the rediscovery of peace politics? 

The Russian authorities are using special methods to force confessions and guilty verdicts from peaceful protesters. Русский

What the government’s responses indicate is that because black lives do not matter, to be heard black protest must to disturb civil life, or be domesticated under the politics of multicultural rights.

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The default white western view of Islam as a sealed world is wrong.

An extract from the first report of a new initiative tracks how fundamentalist groups have embraced the UN as a site to foster conservative social change.

New research by the Trades Union Congress to understand the lives of Britain’s young workers will help improve work and give them a path to union membership.

The individualisation of our exposure to information through ‘filter bubbles’ facilitates the atomisation of society and pushes dissenting voices to the margins.

The latest spike in the price of bitcoin has all the hallmarks of investor mania.

Austrian-British philosopher, Karl Popper, argued for the existence of several lights to illuminate the truth. This is the essence of an open society and what the Hungarian government is fighting against.

Appeasing votebanks of the Hindu right, instead of legislation, a consultation has been launched which serves to obscure the ugly reality of caste-based discrimination which is alive and well in Britain.

This is the anonymised true story of the premature death of one women's organisation. Its experience is not unique, and we must do better.