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Published in: openIndiaOf sacred cows and profane menThe cow has highlighted religious, regional, social and cultural differences. Some humans have been killed in the...
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Published in: openIndiaReimagining India in BritainThe Great India Show covers even science in India. It has been blessed by the two governments. Britain is out on a...
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Published in: HomeThe Kiron familyWe revisit the social start-up that gives refugees access to higher education, meeting a 24 yr.old Syrian...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe current and future challenges of Middle Eastern studiesIn the wake of Trump's victory, what are the challenges for Middle Eastern studies in the US? And what should be the...
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Published in: HomeA learning experienceMaking a few people obscenely rich is no reason for the USA not to have a health system something like Israel’s....
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Published in: digitaLibertiesWar, peace and the technological revolutionTechnology is forcing through a new form of conversation — even in conflicts. How will the next generation of tools...
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Published in: HomeThe future of education: Georges Haddad and Yaacov Hecht at the World Forum for Democracy 2016The two keynote speakers come from very different worlds. But both agree that a revolution in education is required,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Not going gentle into the night: on climate, trade, Brexit and TrumpTTIP, TPP, CETA et al. are bad for the climate, equality, democracy and social justice. So is Trump.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesHidden Warfare 2: DronesIn an attempt to give them a better image, the British MoD has renamed them Protector rather than Predator.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesHidden Warfare 1. CyberThe UK agency would like to be known as on the front line defending UK interests from cyber attacks, rather than as...
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Published in: Home7 steps to education for democracy for allEducation should be an engine for democracy and not just for business, argues Democracy Matters participant in the...
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Published in: HomeIs statistics the prize weapon in the Zika arms race?International political wrangling is stymieing progress in fighting Zika at the cost of a swelling number of...
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Published in: HomeSweet poison: why our brains need a sugar taxSugar may not just be harming your waistline, but also your brain.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesSurveillance, power and communicationCoalitions of actors – scholars, activists, some politicians, and even some captains of industry, will need to...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCan fact-checking save democracy – and journalism as we know it?The Global Fact-Checking Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina (#GlobalFact3, June 9-10) made it clear that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIraq and chemical weapons: A view from the insideIn an interview originally published in 2003, Ron G Manley talks to openDemocracy about Iraq's alleged weapons of...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe truth about algorithmsAlgorithms are not working for you and me – they are working for corporate interests, and their aim is to mould us...
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Published in: 50.50Ending HIV: ideology vs evidence at the UNThis week’s negotiations over the UN’s Political Declaration Ending AIDS are rife with circular debates, and sex,...
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Published in: TransformationSocially constructed silence? Protecting policymakers from the unthinkable.The scientific community is profoundly uncomfortable with the storm of political controversy that climate research...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe dawn and delusions of the ‘Nerd Reich’: BlockBusters #1It is both possible and necessary to think politically about the blockchain: delegation, transmutation and complexity.
