This week's editor
Michael Edwards is editor of Transformation.
Digital Liberties
How to fight for digital human rights?
European integration
Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.
No to TTIP
Constitutional conventions: best practice
An Oxford Scot at King Dubya's court: Niall Ferguson's 'Colossus'
Ronald Reagan and America: the real legacy
The posthumous inflation of Ronald Reagan’s political achievement is also a covert critique of George W Bush’s foreign-policy failures. But there are deep continuities between the two administrations, says Godfrey Hodgson.
(This article was first published on 9 June 2004)
How to be radical? An interview with Todd Gitlin and George Monbiot
(This article was first published on 5 September 2003)
Burma's struggle, Aung San Suu Kyi's role
(This article was first published on 8 August 2006)
Disarmed
In a return to the putrid nightmare of post-Katrina New Orleans, Jim Gabour learns the hard way about what is needed to keep on the right side of life. First published September 5th 2005. Updated August 24th 2010.
"Born-again" Muslims: cultural schizophrenia
The divine rage that sparked the attacks on New York and Washington was inspired by the collision between a particular interpretation of Islamic faith and disabling social experience, says Malise Ruthven.
(This article was first published on 27 September 2001)
A world of dignity
The death of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations special representative in Iraq, robs the world of a calm voice of reason, humanity, and deep intelligence precisely when these qualities are most needed. In tribute, openDemocracy publishes his 11 November 2002 lecture on the universal character of human dignity.
(This article was first published on 24 August 2003)
Black glove/white glove: revisiting Mexico's 1968
The persistence of Mexican writers in seeking to expose the truth about state massacres of students during and after the 1968 Mexico City Olympics is illuminating Mexico's past.
(This article was first published on 25 August 2004)
Guantánamo: the inside story
Clive Stafford Smith is a lawyer who represents many of the more than 500 prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. In an exclusive interview for openDemocracy, he describes the prison camp and the conditions that lawyers work under, tells us that his clients have been tortured and explains how false information extracted by torture is contaminating US intelligence. Listen to Guantánamo, the inside story.
(This was first published on 23 November 2005)
Fidel Castro's legacy: Cuban conversations
The dynamic of change in Cuba as the end of the Fidel Castro era approaches can be understood only by viewing the deep flaws of his leadership style in the context of the record of the revolution as a whole, says Fred Halliday.
(This article was first published on 24 August 2006)
Living with Castro
Fidel Castro has dominated Cubans' minds as well as lives for forty-seven years. How have they coped? Bella Thomas explores the intimate psychic effects of an era nearing its end.
(This article was first published on 13 August 2006)
Climate change, global justice: letter to Al Gore
The next climate battle offers a test that the maker of "An Inconvenient Truth" has yet to face up to.
(This article was first published on 27 July 2006)
When the levee breaks
The New Orleans disaster should inundate the rich world’s political imagination with awareness of man-made climate change, says Ian Christie.
(This article was first published on 2nd September 2005)
America's dreaming
Can the “American dream” belong also to the world? In the sixth of our Letters to Americans series, the Iranian scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo, who teaches at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran, and the philosopher Richard Rorty of Stanford University discuss the future of America’s national story.
(This article was first published on 30 August 2004)
The road not taken: the Iraq Study Group
Bush's royal crush
The crisis of Colombia's state
Mahatma 189
America's choice: imperial vs constitutional rule
Benedict XVI in Brazil: raising the Catholic flag
The shifting religious landscape of Brazil presents a major challenge of policy and empathy to the visiting conservative pope, says Rodrigo de Almeida.
Queen Elizabeth meets President George
Cutting loose
The Malvinas and Afghanistan: unburied ghosts
The deepening of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution: why most people don't get it
Bush's soft-focus hard-edge
Latin American democracy: time to experiment
After occupation: a containment strategy for Iraq
The discomfort of strangers
This is personal
Forty-one years before Virginia Tech, there was the University of Texas. Jim Gabour has reason to remember.
"M.J and Mary Gabour, their two sons, and William and Marguerite Lamport were headed up the steps from the 27th floor. They found the door barricaded by a desk. Mark and Mike Gabour pushed the desk away and leaned in the door to see what was going on. Suddenly Charlie rushed at them, spraying them with pellets from his sawed-off shotgun. Mark died instantly. Charlie fired down the stairway at least three more times.
Brazil: the moral challenge
Brazil needs a new dialogue to address the violence and inequality holding it back, says Arthur Ituassu
The Republicans' grand experiment
Hugo Chávez: yo, el supremo
Kurt Vonnegut : a voice for life
Bush besieged
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