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What does it mean to reduce the stigma of mental health?

We shouldn’t alter the reality of mental illness to suit public opinion.

By George Gillett

/ 17 Mar 2020

What does it mean to reduce the stigma of mental health?

Neoliberal realism: eastern Europe’s doomed love affair with western values

Doesn’t eastern Europe, cinema as well, need to locate its identity in new ways to negotiate its history; the traumatic memory of the past included?

By Lucian Tion

/ 17 Mar 2020

Neoliberal realism: eastern Europe’s doomed love affair with western values

We must stand up to protect Brazil’s Amazon rainforest from this huge dam

The construction of the Belo Monte Dam in the Brazilian Amazon threatens to destroy unique cultures, making traditions, rituals, languages and knowledge of the forest disappear. Português English

By miguel pinheiro

/ 17 Mar 2020

We must stand up to protect Brazil’s Amazon rainforest from this huge dam

There’s nothing so political as a pandemic

“Don’t politicise a crisis,” they say. But what’s more political than a global health emergency?

By Adam Ramsay

/ 17 Mar 2020

There’s nothing so political as a pandemic

“This is a public execution”: Russian activist Anastasia Shevchenko on a year of house arrest

Shevchenko is the first Russian citizen on trial for working for a foreign organisation.

By Nina Kobzeva

/ 17 Mar 2020

“This is a public execution”: Russian activist Anastasia Shevchenko on a year of house arrest

On the edges of democracy: mobilizing health and care as a common good

In the moment of the ‘corona crisis’, autocratic tendencies are cropping up, hitting those who are the least protected. What can we do?

By Krystian Woznicki

/ 17 Mar 2020

On the edges of democracy: mobilizing health and care as a common good

The social support networks stepping up in coronavirus-stricken China

Below the sweeping centralized measures, decentralized networks have provided relief to thousands.

By Mi You

/ 17 Mar 2020

The social support networks stepping up in coronavirus-stricken China

Is 'helicopter money' the answer to the looming economic crisis?

Central banks must join the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. But policymakers must be cautious about using the wrong tool at the wrong time.

By Frances Coppola

/ 17 Mar 2020

Is 'helicopter money' the answer to the looming economic crisis?

The collective psychology of coronavirus

Do we see ourselves as part of a larger “us,” a “them-and-us,” or an atomised “I”?

By Alex Evans

/ 17 Mar 2020

The collective psychology of coronavirus

#TradWives: sexism as gateway to white supremacy

The TradWives debate is a new and effective recruiting tool for the growing intersection between toxic masculinity and white supremacy.

By Miranda Christou

/ 17 Mar 2020

#TradWives: sexism as gateway to white supremacy

Today's Brazil is worse than Marielle Franco's. But its future belongs to the Marielles

Today's Brazil is not the same as the one the murdered young councilwoman knew and fought for. But the seed planted by the black lesbian activist created a transformative movement. Português Español

By Manuella Libardi

/ 16 Mar 2020

Today's Brazil is worse than Marielle Franco's. But its future belongs to the Marielles

How a Bernie Sanders administration could dismantle Canada’s fossil fuel economy

Canada’s extractive economy is highly dependent on oil exports to the US. A Sanders Green New Deal could finally force the Trudeau government to clean up its act.

By Shreya Kalra

/ 16 Mar 2020

How a Bernie Sanders administration could dismantle Canada’s fossil fuel economy