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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Facing the antiestablishment challenge: three remedies, but only one solution
The regeneration of the traditionally mainstream political parties is the only solution.
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghanistan, North Korea – and Tunisia: a security briefing for Joe Biden
Biden’s first executive orders have done a lot, but he can’t order away all Trump’s cack-handed legacy – or silence...
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Published in: 50.50How our feminist investigative journalism fellows are shaking up the media
openDemocracy is training women and LGBTIQ people around the world in investigations and storytelling. Meet our...
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Published in: HomeInside Mar-a-Lago: the secret history of Trump’s Florida retreat
For many years, the elite private members’ club has sustained the outgoing US president. But is it all about to fall apart?
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Published in: ourEconomyTo fix the US, President Biden must listen to those who put him in power
An unprecedented grassroots mobilisation removed Donald Trump from the White House. The incoming president would be...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe age of Trump is over. Now the US must tackle its polarisation
In the past 20 years, hostility – fomented in a dislike and distrust of different groups – has dramatically...
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Published in: 50.50Farewell to the Alt-Facts Republic: the Trump administration obituary
The Twitter-obsessed, twice-impeached Trump administration has died, age four – but the polarisation it fed off, and...
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Published in: HomeTrump’s legacy isn’t just violence and QAnon. It’s a broken information system
Talking to voters across the US, from gentle MAGA moms to armed militias, it’s clear why Trumpism has taken a deep...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaVenezuela sends oxygen and doctors to the Brazilian Amazon
At the same time, Mexico cedes vaccines to poor countries while the U.S. and Russia refuse to join COVAX.
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Published in: ourEconomy: Investigation“They left us starving”: How the fashion industry abandoned its workers
Fashion brands must end exploitation in supply chains and offer fair salaries and working conditions, say industry experts.
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismPrecarity, populism, and prospects for a green democratic transformation
The proper Left alternative to the class struggle is subverting capitalism by mobilizing an ever wider and more...
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhy are Quebecers so keen to ban religious symbols?
Laws restricting the wearing of religious symbols are in place in a number of European countries but are relatively...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe far right’s rise within armed forces is a global threat to democracy
The suspected involvement of soldiers and police in the US Capitol riots echoes infiltration moves by extremists in Europe.
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationRevealed: US Capitol protesters are still fundraising via Amazon and PayPal
Tech giants are under pressure to ‘sever all ties to hate groups and white supremacists’.
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Published in: 50.50: Investigation‘Christian nationalists’ accused of violating law in Georgia elections
Democrats won the critical Senate runoff races. But did evangelical groups ‘cross a legal line’ in trying to keep...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThis is American fascism
Like Mussolini’s March on Rome and Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, Donald Trump’s Insurrection is the beginning of years...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy is discrimination against American Roma ignored?
A community of one million people has been left out of the US’s belated national reckoning with racism. It’s time to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCan Twitter and Facebook censor Trump in the name of democracy?
Although we find the censorship of the still-president of the US sympathetic and fair, we must not forget that...
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Published in: ourEconomyPodcast: How Democrats won Georgia – and what happens now
Travelling across Georgia, we saw a radically different way of doing politics. The violence in DC should not obscure...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWill Iran’s Revolutionary Guard provoke Trump into going out with a bang?
As domestic rioters offer distraction, the risk looms from overseas of a messy war to welcome Biden.