Praguers celebrate 23rd anniversary of Velvet Revolution satirical parade. Demotix/ Radim Beznoska. All rights reserved.This fall’s conference – Populism, authoritarianism, and the media: The age of mediocracy and mediacracy –…
The Women’s March on Washington erupted over the weekend to the tune of 500,000 protesters with boots on the ground in the nation’s capital. Estimates came in from Los Angeles at…
The various proposals in this article are representative of the deliberations of participating US students in the Democracy Workshop at the European Student Conference hosted at Yale University in February,…
I worked for Congress for six years, and during that time I learned the power of citizen activism. I met with hundreds of people. Some of them were professional lobbyists…
Commemoration of the Saharawi Republic’s 30th anniversary in liberated territories of Western Sahara. Picture by Jaysen Naidoo. Flickr. Some rights reserved (CC BY-SA 2.0). In order to better understand the…
Erol Önderoglu.Probably the prosecutor will present his view on March 21, and ask for our conviction. This is for taking part in a solidarity movement defending the existence of a…
Protest in front of journalists' syndicate in Cairo on 2 January 2017. NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved. “Listen only to me” - Even if he had tried, Egyptian President…
Ramchandra Guha, historian. Wikicommons/Pushkarv. Some rights reserved.When the 'fascist' Modi was verging on becoming India's Prime Minister, intellectuals told us that he would be a threat to the very idea…
This year a young female soccer coach from Hong Kong made history when she became the first woman ever to lead a men’s team to a national title. The story…
Negotiating a political solution The Geneva negotiations of January 2014 lasted two weeks and failed to address the two key items on the agenda: fighting jihadism and establishing a transitional…
Those were the days: celebrating the liberation of Benghazi from the Qaddafi dictatorship in October 2011. Flickr / Magherabia. Some rights reserved.Since the fall of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime in 2011,…
The video opens up to two performers staring into the camera. The stage shimmers with ice awash in ambient light. You lean in, though, if only to notice that these two…