Those who claim we are living in an era of 'unprecedented prosperity' turn a blind eye to the suffering of people and planet.

As the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking more progressive positions.

"We are not striking to fill our pockets. But to demand an end to the bossing around of our universities by politicians and bureaucrats."

We need to rethink how data and digital infrastructure is governed, owned and used.

A successful green transition will require much more than increased government spending.

Market arrangements always favour certain outcomes over others, and ensure that social arrangements stay within set parameters.

Who owns and controls the wealth of nations is fundamental to how an economic system functions, and in whose interests .

A new section of openDemocracy that puts people, planet and power at the centre of the debate about our economic future.

La prioridad política de un número creciente de municipalistas es remodelar a fondo el conjunto de relaciones que constituyen la maquinaria de un Estado alienante. English

Through aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus founders, escalating military action between India and Pakistan suggests urgency for global denuclearization.

Something is going badly wrong in elections and referenda across the world. The culprit is an age-old voting system that prevents voters from fully expressing themselves.

The crisis in Venezuela and Jair Bolsonaro's access to power coincide with Latin America's slide towards gradual irrelevance in world politics. Interview by Nueva Sociedad. Español.

For growing numbers of municipalists, new politics means fundamentally reshaping the bundle of relationships that constitute the alienating state-machine, in favour of new forms of collective social organisation.

La crisis de Venezuela y la llegada de Bolsonaro se combinan con un deslizamiento de América Latina hacia una gradual irrelevancia en la política mundial y una pérdida de autonomía relativa en sus relaciones internacionales. Entrevista de Nueva Sociedad. English.

The sanctions force Iranians to suspend their struggle against their abusive father, fearing that the interfering strangers would manipulate their demands and grievances.

The German legal scholar and Nazi ideologue Carl Schmitt described a ‘State of Exception’ as the process by which a sovereign leader can transcend the rule of law in the name of the public good. 

En su "State of the Union" de este año Trump aseguró que: "año tras año, innumerables estadounidenses son asesinados por criminales extranjeros ilegales". Simultáneamente, Carolina del Norte fue testigo de varias redadas contra inmigrantes. English.

Canada appears progressive on the world stage. But under pressure from the Christian right, Ontario’s premier scrapped modern sex education.

As NC immigrant arrests climb to 230 ICE announces the “New Normal” declaring how, where and why the people considered immigration violators will be arrested.

Cases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality.