Pervasive and diverse, instances of violence against women can only be fully comprehended in the political contexts that give them purpose and meaning.
Backwards looking politics is a malaise affecting both the west and east. It breeds violence as global elites clamber to maintain their grip on power.
Commentary misses the point: the legitimacy of Trump or Le Pen comes not from the sudden appeal of a new brand of right-wing populism, but their legitimisation by mainstream politics.
Reduced growth is, for various reasons, a systemic problem. The more reckless the gambling on the markets, the more the entire system balances on a knife edge…
By intensifying deportations of Central Americans in 2016, the US is condemning thousands to return to the violence they fled from. Español.
Las deportaciones que Estados Unidos intensifica a partir de este mes de enero condenan a miles de centroamericanos a regresar a la violencia de la que había huído. English.
Disagreement over words is surely to be welcomed in a pluralist intellectual and political culture. Why is neoliberalism so provocative? Why is it Blairites in particular that are so provoked?
People are waking up to the darkness in American policing, and the police don’t like it one bit.
Hans Blix ponders his long career in international politics and diplomacy, the state of the Middle East, and why he is an advocate for nuclear power. Interview.
It will only exacerbate the causes of terrorist attacks, diminish society’s capacity to cope rationally with risks, and permanently damage freedom, democracy, and international law.
