Moldova’s presidential race isn’t over yet. Neither are the country’s geopolitical divides or its long-standing struggle with oligarchs. Can they ever be?
At a time of major global and European challenges, the UK’s decision to sideline itself and retreat into mercantilism, is an act of folly.
On World Vegan Day it’s time to recognize that veganism isn’t just a fashion statement. The decision to boycott animal products has major political implications.
It is now time that the authorities stop labelling all those who dare speak their minds as “terrorists”.
Is the Trump movement a variant of fascism? In the weeks following the 8 November election will organized vigilantism emerge among Trump supporters?
"Do we want to protect our democracy? Kids are born citizens, but they're not born with an understanding of democracy and how it works." Interview in the run-up to the World Forum for Democracy 2016.
The debate around a no-fly zone in Syria is governed by divisions in the political establishment and opposing views.
The British state has regulated relationships between its citizens and certain foreigners since at least the Colonial era. Today’s border controls continue to police people’s intimate lives and retain sexist and racist assumptions.
No one knows the solutions to Egypt’s problems better than those living there on a daily basis. But as the saying goes, “better late than never”.
60 years ago, a scene of cold-blooded murder fell upon the hill-top Palestinian village of Kafr Qassem. This is the buried past but the not so buried present of the IDF.
Faced with a future that presents itself as non-negotiable, the temptation is to turn towards the past.
Democracy promotion by the west has been a grubby, hypocritical affair. Is there any hope for doing it properly?
