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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWhy we’re suing over the £23m NHS data deal with Palantir
The government is battling ‘vaccine hesitancy’. How does sneaking through a massive deal with a controversial spy...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow President Bolsonaro used COVID-19 to erode Brazil's democracy
Amid unprecedented chaos, Bolsonaro has shown an increasingly authoritarian attitude
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Published in: HomeSpeaking for ourselves
'You’re on mute! ' was actually a perturbing reminder of the ways in which we have all been silenced
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: News50,000 more homes hit by Britain's bedroom tax, as scientists warn of COVID-19 risk
Soaring benefits claims since the start of the pandemic have resulted in a jump in households affected by the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InterviewPrison has not discouraged Cuba’s leading dissident
The human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer says recent protests have left the regime on the back foot.
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureEgyptian student of gender and religion jailed for terrorism on visit home
Crackdown on freedoms is intensifying with the arrest of Ahmed Samir Santawy – the latest student to be locked up on...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationFresh evidence prompts calls for probe into anti-Labour 'dark money' groups
Exclusive: Electoral Commission urged to investigate potential coordination between ‘near identical’ campaigns that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: ReviewWhy truth is too weak to stop a liar like Boris Johnson
Peter Oborne writes of ‘the nightmare assumption that emotion is more important than thought’. But it’s not just an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsStamp duty holiday leading to homelessness, new figures suggest
Exclusive: Tenants’ rights activists tell openDemocracy that some landlords are trying to cash in by speeding up evictions
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Published in: Home: FeatureOne year after the Hanau massacre, victims’ families fight for justice
Although it was eclipsed by the pandemic, last February’s mass shooting revealed Germany’s failure to confront the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionButantan, Bum Bum Tam Tam and how baile funk might save Brazil
Reviled by elites, this home-grown musical genre is proving an effective weapon in the fight against COVID-19 misinformation
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWe're hiring: fellowship focused on the Brazilian Amazon
Apply to be part of openDemocracy's Latin American section and develop an investigative project on the Amazon and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘One of the problems in France is distrust’, Macron warns. Why might that be?
When it comes to selling things that kill, France is the rising star, when it comes to those that save lives, such...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisWith an election looming, can Brazil finally confront its injustices?
In 'normal' circumstances, Brazil's multiple crises – in health, the economy, politics and the environment – would...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPhilanthrocapitalists stand in the way of direct aid, so we have no time for them
Sex workers and other marginalised communities are in desperate need of rights and direct cash assistance, no...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionThe sultan and his sycophants: Erdoğan is leading Turkey towards a bleak future
The appointment of a controversial new rector to Boğaziçi University is typical of the president’s poor leadership
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsCummings lobbied for ‘friends’ to get fat contract for COVID focus groups
Shadow minister says it's ‘appalling’ that the government dismissed concerns of bias raised after openDemocracy...
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Published in: Home: OpinionKamala Harris, Angela Davis, and the US's failed revolution
If the pandemic could be seen as our Reichstag Fire moment, then the attacks on the Capitol on 6 January 2021 might...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEcuador’s pro-mining politics dealt a blow by Indigenous, green movement
In a historic referendum, more than 80% of the electorate in Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-largest city, voted to ban...
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Published in: Home: Analysis‘You messed with the wrong generation’: the young people resisting Myanmar’s military
Since the coup, social media has become an essential tool for exchanging knowledge and experience between generations