Tech giants are using their dominant positions to shorten the lives of electronic goods. This is bad for consumers and worse for the planet.
It was difficult to miss the irony of commentaries on the “triumph of neo-Ottomanism” on 24 July, when Erdoğan was crowned the second conqueror of Istanbul.
“When it is proposed to protect members of the public from those monuments… all Presidential hell breaks loose.”
“Brexit means ‘opportunity’ for many in the Global South – particularly, African polities – and I shall explain why.”
Criticisms of the “Chinese solution” adopted by Italy have come from both sides, national and international.
What is it? Can we learn from it, and could it "see us through coronavirus"?
His music brings hope in times of Covid, but his message highlights the financial plight of this collapsing business.
Governments haven’t found the magic formula for predicting the way people and diseases will interact with each other.
openDemocracy's investigations editor talks about how Ireland has changed since he left as a young man, and why we need to dig into unaccountable funding in politics.
In the many instances where far-right activity attempts to exhibit solemnity, gravity, or strength, a well-aimed joke is a powerful act of resistance.
Each one of us is an end-in-itself, a citizen within a “kingdom of ends,” as Kant put it.
Special report on the ‘silent tragedy’ of coronavirus deaths in care homes.
