From Sicily: a small, sad episode in the ongoing refugee crisis.
The most recent clash between Turkey and Russia signals a dangerous return to power politics, but what does it mean for them and for Europe?
Are our rights online under threat by our own governments? What real and imagined dangers face citizens at the online-offline nexus? Watch the wide-ranging panel discussion which launched openDemocracy's new 2016 partnership, 'Human rights and the internet'.
Strengthening the sanctions against undocumented work will not stop the employment of undocumented workers. However, sanctions have the potential to increase exploitation while damaging community cohesion.
The ‘shock’ is not the rise of the Front National, but the failure of the system to bring forward a positive alternative.
For the first time in its history the Front National is a legitimate contender in French politics. What does this mean for France and Europe as a whole?
China launched its “go global” strategy over a decade ago, and has funneled upwards of US$ 120 billion into Latin America, more than any other country. Bu this comes to an environmental price. Español. Português.
We have become economic subjects, instead of digital citizens. A new film, “Give Us Back Our Data”, demands that we resist the consequences of our lost technological imagination, recapturing it from Silicon Valley.
With the closure of the Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian borders to all migrants who are not of Syrian, Iraqi or Afghan nationality, the international community has sent out a worrying signal.
BTS guest editor Lucy Mayblin introduces a series on the UK’s 2015 Immigration Bill, which passed the House of Commons last week and now heads to the House of Lords.
As new rulers (and their voters) gradually realize that austerity cannot be simply voted out of existence, or prosperity into existence, the prevailing mood is that of a bad hangover.
The belief that debts have to be repaid is one the cornerstones of the austerity narrative. But we have the tools to challenge it.
