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Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker in press conference after EU summit on Greece.Demotix/Sander de Wilde. All rights reserved. In an openDemocracy article a few weeks ago I argued there would be no agreement between the Greek government and the Troika. I took this position because it was (and is) obvious that the most powerful actor …
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The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. Since 2010, protests sparked by civic initiatives have become very common in Armenia’s capital Yerevan and, to a lesser extent, in the smaller cities of Gyumri and Vanadzor. Civic initiatives in Armenia address a range of issues …
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America has come a long way from the days of Jim Crow in the South and redlining in the North, but it’s not quite there yet. And whatever progress America has made is due in large part to Martin Luther King Jr. His dream of a country no longer divided by the color of our skins is …
Read More “See Which States Have Achieved The Most And Least Equality”
Nothing seems to better highlight how badly we need more women in government than the photo of Trump signing the global gag rule executive order while surrounded by white men. The order will reinstate a policy first introduced by Reagan that will pull funding from all nongovernmental organizations providing abortions and related health care services. This …
Read More “Thanks To Trump, Thousands Of Women Are Gearing Up To Run For Office”
Erdogan talks with the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the end of the 13th summit, in Istanbul, on April 15, 2016. Xinhua/SIPA USA/Press Association. All rights reserved. Whether the Justice and Development Party (JDP) would one day establish an Islamic state or a sharia system has long been a debate in …
Over the past several years, Hillary Clinton has transformed her signature pantsuit—a loose-fitting jacket that runs to the mid-thigh, paired with lightly tapered pants—into a rallying cry for female empowerment. In early October, a pantsuit-clad flash mob popped up in New York City’s Union Square, dancing to a Justin Timberlake song in a show of …
Read More “The Controversial History of Hillary’s Signature Ensemble”
Under an intensely red safe-light, a photographic print begins to develop before our eyes: from close up, two tanks move away from us – their turrets pointing into the distance. The tanks, provenance and location all unexplained, are ominously close – so close we can touch them – but yet remain out of reach, strange. …
On January 20, Americans focused their attention on Washington, D.C., as the presidential inauguration ceremony took place on the National Mall, a place that urban scholars, geographers and historians refer to as a “stage for democracy.” As an urban geographer, I study the important role of public space in cities. Perhaps no public space is …
Read More “Inauguration Weekend Dispatches From The National Mall, America’s ‘Stage For Democracy’”
The big winner Serlahattin Demirtaş. Demotix/ Avni Kantan. All rights reserved. Although the outcome of Turkey’s general election is undoubtedly dramatic, we should be careful not to exaggerate the death either of the ruling AKP or of the country’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Against a backdrop of falling growth and investment and rising unemployment and …
The secret’s out—Greenland isn’t the vacationer’s paradise; Iceland is. In an alarming reminder of the perils of suddenly becoming too popular, Icelandic residents are facing two of history’s biggest threats to peace and tranquility: tourists and pirates. Let’s take pirates first. Yes, we’re talking real ones—well, modern-day rogues, at least. Four years ago, the Pirate …
