“Enthusiasm for his victory is drawing investment into European equities. And French private sector employment has just reached a post-crisis high, giving a boost to wages.”

Erdogan may require a more pragmatic approach to the US and Russia, hence indirectly with the PYD and Assad, to open up space for himself in the region’s politics.

A fresh approach to security and austerity highlights the choice for Britain's voters.

Four LGBT people from Moldova share their experiences of prejudice and presumptions. Русский

An undemocratic proposal for a new constitution and an increasingly isolated Venezuela’s withdrawal from the OAS are two developments of an increasingly upsetting crisis. Español

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.

openDemocracyUK's new economics editor starts next week.

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.