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9/11 added ‘war on terror’ to US Christian Right’s racist agenda

White right-wing evangelical Christians were fighting racist culture wars long before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center

By Chrissy Stroop

/ 10 Sep 2021

9/11 added ‘war on terror’ to US Christian Right’s racist agenda

Foucault! Five leftist and feminist thinkers also inspiring the far Right

WikiLeaks files show how figures from Antonio Gramsci to Simone de Beauvoir are revered, as well as feared, by today’s ultra-conservatives

By Aaron White

/ 8 Sep 2021

Foucault! Five leftist and feminist thinkers also inspiring the far Right

Los abusos sexuales de la Iglesia, un crimen aún sin reparación

Hay un largo camino aún por recorrer, y la Iglesia no está haciendo suficientes esfuerzos para cambiar las estructuras que encubren los abusos y los dejan en la impunidad

By José Zepeda and Camilo Barrionuevo

/ 26 Aug 2021

Los abusos sexuales de la Iglesia, un crimen aún sin reparación

Polish media and opposition fight to save press freedom from state control

Government’s controversial bill ‘would wipe out one of last institutions to hold authorities accountable’ and could lead to US sanctions

By Madeline Roache

/ 20 Aug 2021

Polish media and opposition fight to save press freedom from state control

Revealed: Files expose ‘culture war’ ties between anti-abortion groups and Brexit

WikiLeaks: The Intolerance Network filesLeading Conservatives, including a Tory Party donor and Vote Leave’s Matthew Elliott, named in some of the 17,000 documents released by WikiLeaks last week

By Claire Provost and Tatev Hovhannisyan

/ 12 Aug 2021

Revealed: Files expose ‘culture war’ ties between anti-abortion groups and Brexit

Two years on, we’re still failing the victims of the El Paso massacre

The inconvenient truth is that we don’t care enough about the victims of such attacks to tackle white supremacist terrorism

By Matthew Feldman

/ 3 Aug 2021

Two years on, we’re still failing the victims of the El Paso massacre

Afghanistan’s future path to be determined by a corridor of power

The expanding Taliban’s new bond with China across a narrow border is set to greatly impact the region, and further diminish human rights

By Paul Rogers

/ 1 Aug 2021

Afghanistan’s future path to be determined by a corridor of power

The enduring appeal of Sayyid Qutb’s jihadist ideology

Sayyid Qutb’s ‘Milestones’, published in 1964, has been the ideological force behind a succession of violent Islamist groups

By Georges Fahmi

/ 26 Jul 2021

The enduring appeal of Sayyid Qutb’s jihadist ideology

‘The Sex Lives of African Women’: an exhilarating, at times enraging new book

‘We are all on a journey towards sexual freedom,’ says author Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, giving us a rare glimpse of women’s diverse personal lives

By Rosebell Kagumire

/ 24 Jul 2021

‘The Sex Lives of African Women’: an exhilarating, at times enraging new book

A construção do demônio na sociedade brasileira

O discurso neopentecostal fomentou a campanha de Bolsonaro em 2018. Diante das eleições, é importante entender sua lógica

By Gabriela Sánchez Martínez

/ 19 Jul 2021

Religion and the state: unintended effects of anti-radicalisation policies

European governments’ anti-radicalisation policies may threaten the relationship between the citizen and the state

By Olivier Roy

/ 19 Jul 2021

Religion and the state: unintended effects of anti-radicalisation policies

Gobierno español cuestionado por los hallazgos de openDemocracy sobre ‘terapias de conversión’

Tras revelaciones de que clínicas administradas en África por grupos financiados por la cooperación internacional ofrecen ‘terapias’ anti-gay, un partido de centro-derecha demanda respuestas en España

By Diana Cariboni

/ 15 Jul 2021

Inés Arrimadas, líder del partido Ciudadanos, en un acto tras ganar las elecciones de Cataluña en 2017 | Luay Albasha / Alamy