Within hours of his inauguration, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Defending women from gender ideology ...

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Maduro took office last week for a third consecutive term. Now, he’s consolidating his position as dictator Nicolás Maduro ...

The past fifteen months of genocide in Gaza have been beyond devastating for women who have had to fight to keep their families alive and together in the constant shadow of death. These women have ...

Don’t underestimate the US’s global influence. Torture survivors around the world depend on the UK speaking out ...

With Trump 2.0, the US enters a new era – one where people’s rights, particularly those of women and girls, LGBTQIA+ people, Black or brown people, or immigrants, are ignored, or worse, violated.

Hamas now has a long-term flow of loyal supporters after so many Palestinians experienced death and devastation ...

After four years of narrowly avoiding prison, Donald Trump is back in the White House. For many observers outside the US, the re-election of a convicted felon who tried to illegally overturn an ...

Professor Wendy Brown joins us to discuss what the second coming of Trump means for the would-be strongmen of global politics. Professor Wendy Brown is an American political theorist, UPS ...

While the world’s media is focused on whether the Gaza ceasefire will succeed, another development in the region is receiving very little attention: the strength and potential of ISIS, after ...

Is the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza fair? That’s the question many are asking this week, after a new investigation detailed the alleged despair of 13 anonymous BBC staff members ...

openDemocracy receives so many carefully considered messages about our work that it seems a shame to keep them to ourselves. Each week, we share some of the most thought-provoking, interesting or ...