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Published in: Home: OpinionGodfrey Hodgson: a legendary author who predicted America’s unravellingHodgson, who died aged 86, provided a stellar canon of articles for openDemocracy that unveil the path to Trumpism.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Facing the antiestablishment challenge: three remedies, but only one solutionThe 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 BidenBiden’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 mediaopenDemocracy 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 retreatFor 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 powerAn 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 polarisationIn 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 obituaryThe 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 systemTalking 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 AmazonAt 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 workersFashion 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 transformationThe 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 democracyThe 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 PayPalTech 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 electionsDemocrats 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 fascismLike 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 nowTravelling across Georgia, we saw a radically different way of doing politics. The violence in DC should not obscure...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionA Green New Deal for whom?
