Standing between the government, FARC and international mining companies are the indigenous people of Cauca: unarmed, but capable of reducing a sergeant to tears.
Algeria wrested independence from France in 1962 after a bitter and extremely violent eight-year struggle. The legacy has continued to shadow its efforts to create a workable model of development and a humane life for its citizens. Francis Ghilès invokes a wealth of memory from his years reporting
A season of high spectacle in London offers only a temporary respite from the United Kingdom's economic and political troubles. But the two kinds of experience also overlap, says David Hayes.
"We want to be citizens of the world and not its mere inhabitants." A group of leading intellectuals has composed a document arguing that deeper and more extensive forms of democracy are essential to cope with the demands of globalisation and its associated transformations of governance. The docum
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Culture today is dependent on shock, excess, instant effect, and the avoidance of intellectual effort. If the plastic arts are notably trivial and befuddling, literature, music, and cinema lag not far behind. From openDemocracy.
In pursuit of La Habana - the journey of a lifetime. (View slideshow of photos by Scarlett Freund)
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For originality of mind, Tom Nairn is without equal among his contemporaries. In fifty years, there has never been a
Tunisia's modern history, from the late French colonial period to the rule of two long-term presidents, has been a constant presence in the life of the journalist Francis Ghilès. Here he reflects on how this experience - familial, social, professional - has over six decades shaped his understandin
