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Published in: Home“No one is too young to make a difference”: stories from the global climate strikeYoung people recount how they protested, in the face of poverty, conflict and toxic air pollution, for action on...
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Published in: HomeNew York empties its jailsA huge achievement that could even signify the beginning of a more rational, humane approach to American criminal...
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Published in: TransformationSilence = death: Sarah Schulman on ACT UP, the forgotten resistance to the AIDS crisisWhen the AIDS activist movement ACT UP was formed in New York in 1987, 50 per cent of Americans wanted people with...
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Published in: openSecurityBloomberg's biopolitics: the molecular mayorLooking back on three terms of Michael Bloomberg we see a mayor who sought to fundamentally change New York’s...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter Snowden: UN takes first small step to curb global surveillanceThe debate on international electronic spying, blown open by the US National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward...
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Published in: openSecurityUnreformable: an end to stop-and-frisk in NYC?
Under Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelley stop-and-frisk has been a racist technology of control...
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Published in: 50.50The modesty wars: women and the Hasidim in Brooklyn
The recent cultural wars between the Orthodox Jewish Hasidim in Brooklyn, New York and their neighbours are really...
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Published in: HomeHurricane Sandy: Romney's missed opportunity
Mitt Romney's lackluster response to Hurricane Sandy has been a wasted opportunity, both for his campaign and, more...
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Published in: HomeOccupy a narrativeOne year on, the Occupy movement is but the shadow of its former self. Whatever happened to the 99%?
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Published in: HomeUniting States of Americans: Are we the 99%?
Internationally, we should all be concerned by how the unifying discourse of the 99% occludes important differences...
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Published in: HomeUniting States of Americans: We are the 99%!
A year ago this month, 'the 99%' changed the discourse of US politics. But did this call to action for 'American...
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Published in: openSecurityBeing secure in the space of occupation: notes from a student-led experiment in New York
Security is nothing if not the radical equality experienced when acting in concert. But even in spaces created...
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Published in: openEconomyJimmy Wales or Kim Dotcom - is anti-SOPA about fundamental principles or competing commercial interests?
In this podcast, Tony Curzon Price talks to Albert Wenger, partner at Union Square Ventures, the venture capital...
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Published in: HomeThe movement moves on: what happens after Zuccotti Park
From Manhattan, what happened in the aftermath of the New York Mayor's action to clear the Occupy Wall Street...
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Published in: HomeClearing Zuccotti Park: the strange resilience of democracy with a thin skin
The occupation of Zuccotti Park was only the visible tip of a movement whose significance and power goes well beyond...
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Published in: HomeThe Internet is still changing everything. Now, the rendez-vous with ourselves
The Club de Madrid convenes its annual conference this week, which this year is themed on Internet and Democracy....
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Published in: HomeRessentiment: how sniping at OWS feeds a dangerous populism
The right criticises OWS because it lacks order ... or surreptitiously injects hierarchy; because it respects...
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Published in: HomeOccupy Wall Street: where are the migrants?The lack of demographic diversity amongst the protestors and uncertainty about their demands make Occupy Wall Street...
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Published in: HomeIntellectuals against the public sphere: how to do debate better than Evgeny Morozov's tear-down
Evgeny Morozov, an engaging thinker whom we have enjoyed publishing on openDemocracy, produced an intemperate review...
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Published in: openSecurityThe United States and Pakistan – beyond the verbal division
The United States and Pakistan engage in a war of words. Iraq to strengthen air sovereignty with the acquisition of...
