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Published in: Home: OpinionAs the rich get richer and the Global South gets poorer, expect more conflictRising inequality provides ripe pickings for militant Islamist groups plotting insurgencies – and ensures the ‘war...
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Published in: ourEconomy: ExplainerIn 2008, we bailed out the banks. In 2021, we need to bail out the planet
The COVID-19 pandemic is not a random event. It is a symptom of a global economic system that is destroying the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisAnti-East Asian racism rose under COVID – but it has a long, grim historyGrowing up in south-east London, one of my earliest memories was being assaulted – hit in the jaw and with racist...
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Published in: HomeJust what are Canada's police paid to protect?Four questions about the nature of policing This article is based on a submission to the Special Legislative...
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Published in: ourEconomy: FeatureThe UK’s democratic deficit is escalating the climate crisisIn this long read, the direct cause of the current economic and environmental threats is shown to have been laid...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK needs to build a memorial for the people we enslavedThe revamp of Trafalgar Square, which is home to a statue of one of the slave trade’s founding fathers, offers the...
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Published in: 50.50US Catholics funded Malawi opponents of legal abortion in cases of rapeAfter condemning abortion reform as an imposition of “foreign cultures”, a religious group in Malawi took thousands...
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Published in: Pandemic Borders: OpinionWill Biden’s ‘smart borders’ be any different from Trump’s?Expanding the use of AI, surveillance and data-driven technology could be more dangerous for privacy and human...
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Published in: Home: OpinionRising Isis attacks in Africa mean the ‘war on terror’ is far from overBiden’s focus on Afghanistan exit may seem like an end to the endless war, but instead the Pentagon has ramped up...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationCanada doctors group breaks silence on “unproven” abortion ‘reversal’ treatmentopenDemocracy’s investigation prompts Canada’s Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to speak out against this...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationRevealed: Doctors worldwide offer ‘dangerous’ treatment to ‘reverse’ abortionsHealth experts call for action from regulators to protect women from spread of controversial method supported by US...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisThe end of closed democracy?The forces that have assembled behind Biden can end racism and exclusion everywhere
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisAll Hail Q! The forging of a right-wing religion and its extreme threat to securityChristians across the US, hostile to mainstream media, are being drawn to the movement through trusted church leaders
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaUnholy alliance: the global crusade against reproductive justiceAs the far Right unites, it is time that we also stand together and strengthen our ties
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Published in: ourEconomy: Feature‘A year later, Breonna Taylor still hasn’t had justice. Say her name’Breonna was killed by police a year ago today. Here’s how five Black Lives Matter activists in her home city think...
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Published in: Home: OpinionA letter from inside Isis: the battle is far from overIn the return of a series imagined by Paul Rogers, a fictional spy sees radicalism rising across the Sahel
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationUK government accused of ‘grotesque betrayal’ as full foreign aid cuts revealedExclusive: Leaks reveal plans to slash aid to world’s poorest countries. Bob Geldof brands move ‘shameful’ while...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionThe radical Right is learning from the GameStop squeezeThe short squeeze may serve as an example of how the radical Right could flex its muscles and gain strength in the long term
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionCOVID-19 has made the super-rich richer. It’s time for a billionaire wealth taxThe US’s billionaires have amassed democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power as millions have been...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe US needs political love that puts its money where its mouth isA social security net is the state’s expression of care for people. As the trauma of Trump and COVID-19 show, its...
