An interview with Richard Jolly on human development and vision, military threats from within our countries and the prevention of future wars, cosmopolitan spirit, and the need to go beyond global photo opportunities
A Congressional bill has been proposed that will finally repeal the severe restrictions on American servicewomen’s access to abortion. But how will this sit with the religious right currently gearing up for the 2012 Presidential elections?
A London-based theatre company founded by two women prisoners will take a play about trafficked girls to the UK’s Latitude Festival this weekend. Lucy Perman talked to openDemocracy 50.50 about the play and why prison is no solution for the women who find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
With his book offering a blueprint for a better Olympics, published this week, author Mark Perryman explains his Five New Rings.
If democracy means rule by the people for the people, it has broken down. At pivotal moments in the past, altering the rules of the political has been a defining trait of the organised left, able to project a new social order out of latent concerns, as well as develop the means to alter the gramma
The punitive language of retribution ignores common sense, justice and compelling evidence of what works, and the new language of the market degrades our penal system, demeaning the tens of thousands of people within its walls.
The call for 'a better quality debate' on the Scottish referendum has a dangerous tendency to downplay the extent to which feeling, emotion and instinct determine both individual choice and national identity. Improving the conversations does not simply require a better knowledge of 'the facts' but
Global financial market-driven post-democracy is well able to describe the logic that governs the realities of contemporary markets and politics, but cannot explain why these realities are justified, universally beneficial or sustainable
The current crisis was not imposed by technocratic elites, but by democratically elected centre-right and centre-left governments. It is to a great extent due to the weak response from society that neoliberal capitalism is consolidating further, as governments are imposing exactly the ruinous poli
