Something is going badly wrong in elections and referenda across the world. The culprit is an age-old voting system that prevents voters from fully expressing themselves.
The crisis in Venezuela and Jair Bolsonaro's access to power coincide with Latin America's slide towards gradual irrelevance in world politics. Interview by Nueva Sociedad. Español.
For growing numbers of municipalists, new politics means fundamentally reshaping the bundle of relationships that constitute the alienating state-machine, in favour of new forms of collective social organisation.
La crisis de Venezuela y la llegada de Bolsonaro se combinan con un deslizamiento de América Latina hacia una gradual irrelevancia en la política mundial y una pérdida de autonomía relativa en sus relaciones internacionales. Entrevista de Nueva Sociedad. English.
The sanctions force Iranians to suspend their struggle against their abusive father, fearing that the interfering strangers would manipulate their demands and grievances.
The German legal scholar and Nazi ideologue Carl Schmitt described a ‘State of Exception’ as the process by which a sovereign leader can transcend the rule of law in the name of the public good.
En su "State of the Union" de este año Trump aseguró que: "año tras año, innumerables estadounidenses son asesinados por criminales extranjeros ilegales". Simultáneamente, Carolina del Norte fue testigo de varias redadas contra inmigrantes. English.
Canada appears progressive on the world stage. But under pressure from the Christian Right, Ontario’s premier scrapped modern sex education
As NC immigrant arrests climb to 230 ICE announces the “New Normal” declaring how, where and why the people considered immigration violators will be arrested.
Cases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality
In this State of the Union address, Trump said, “Year after year, countless Americans are murdered by criminal illegal aliens”. Simultaneously, North Carolina witnessed a number of merciless immigrant raids. Español.
A pesar de algunas iniciativas valiosas para fortalecer el imperio de la ley y hacer frente a la impunidad en la región, el 2018 ha visto crecer al crímen organizado en todo el continente. English
