As the Black Lives Matter movement has , statues of figures linked to slavery have been removed. Such actions are just symbolic, however. What is at stake is the systemic transformation of the present.
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Germany, New Zealand and Taiwan share a common trait beyond having women in the top job.
The media have mad a significant contribution to the current crisis of democracy - now, they must play a vital role in any democratic revival.
The policy is neither rational nor reasonable, and so could be at risk of being struck out.
Hanson has been largely unsuccessful in seeing her signature policies realised. But she has helped normalise xenophobia and racism and thus had a disproportionate influence on the national debate.
Jair Bolsonaro has ignored and openly challenged the advice of health authorities, sacked his health minister and tried to use the pandemic for political gain.
If enacted, the funding cuts may cause the WHO to go bankrupt in the middle of a pandemic. Trump’s move also signals the US is no longer prepared to provide a leadership role in global health issues.
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Populist leaders can be a liability. Their optimistic bias and complacency, ambiguity, and ignorance of science undermine crisis management and put all at risk.
The COVID-19 pandemic must be managed in India in a tense economic context and with a largely privatised health system.
Canada’s ban on foreign travellers is not consistent with the science of the pandemic or Canada’s own values of inclusion and openness to outsiders.
A former education secretary says universities need to choose between being “engines for equality” or “engines of inequality”.
The French president presents himself to all things to all people – leaving voters with less meaningful choice at the ballot box.
A tense regional election leaves food for thought on all sides.
Deciphering the political and historical basis of climate denial in America, of which Trump is the worthy heir.
Unlike older visions of economic democracy which started with class or the collective, the starting point now should be the individual
We have entered a resurgent age of racism wherein discrimination is globalised, normalised and weaponised.
Both main campaigns are focusing on the enemy, not the plan, in part, because the British political system hasn’t caught up with societal changes.
Authoritarian populism has been around for a while, but this government’s determination to punish some groups make the label more apt than just “conservative”.
Since the election of Donald Trump, the United States has been experiencing a slow-moving coup that is still in the process of toppling American democratic institutions.
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