Two men in front of graffiti on a wall which reads 'Putin is a fucker' and 'Ukraine', in March 2022 in Moscow Ever since Putin invaded Ukraine last year, people have been asking why Russians are not ...

The emphasis in Martha Nussbaum’s work on the importance of the emotions in moral philosophy also posits that story-telling plays a central role in expanding our empathy and as such is a necessary ...

In demonstrations barely reported in the media, peasants and students in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam are fighting together against a proposed gargantuan network of dams across the upper ...

Las redes feministas sostienen el acceso al aborto en la provincia argentina de Misiones, ante el corte deliberado de ...

Pero el asedio a los derechos sexuales y reproductivos ocurre en un país que fue amasando durante décadas un movimiento que ...

When BBC Stories aired in January 2020 the short documentary “‘Submitting to my husband like it’s 1959’: Why I became a TradWife” reactions were passionate. On the one hand, those who focused on the ...

A senior Tory MP boasted that he was “fed” propaganda by the Azerbaijani embassy and used it to lobby the UK government, openDemocracy can reveal. The admission came in a podcast where Bob Blackman, ...

The increasing penalization of poverty is a response to social insecurity; a result of public policy that weds the "invisible hand" of the market to the "iron fist" of the penal state, says Loïc ...

The UK’s newly appointed minister for net zero is facing questions over her links to a think tank funded by oil giants that called for climate protesters to be jailed. Claire Coutinho, appointed ...

50.50 spent a (fairly) fact-free weekend among anti-feminists at London’s International Conference on Men’s Issues Men’s rights activists (MRAs) from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia gathered ...

We can shout truth to power and it will never be heard, because truth and politics don’t stand on common ground. “...how vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our daily life; it ...

For politics not to be a dirty word that reflected the failing political class’s capacity for endless debates and conservative behaviour, it had to play a role much more active and daring; politics ...