In post-truth Brexit Britain, politics has become a storytelling competition. The Left must respond with a vision of solidarity and liberation.
The Slovenian philosopher tells Benjamin Ramm that the survival of the European project is too important to be left to a referendum. Español
Todd Gitlin discusses Obama's legacy, Donald Trump, and the future of Bernie Sanders’ movement.
The Brexit crisis offers a unique opportunity to build a politics of plurality and solidarity.
Never has a nation relegated itself into obscurity with such needless, reckless abandon.
Thy Father’s Chair explores the relationship between mental health and domestic disorder. At the Open City Documentary Festival, 23 June 2016.
The cry of 'Rule Britannia' reveals not a yearning for sovereignty, but a lament for the loss of empire.
In April, openDemocracy was in New York to meet the Caravan Activists, a remarkable group of men and women, who have lost loved ones to the 'war on drugs'. Now they campaign to change the system.
The war on drugs is presented as a battle against social evils. But from the Andes to the Caribbean, prohibition has criminalised cultural expression. Español
The unregulated, unlicensed drug market is the purest, most deadly form of capitalism – prioritising profit above all else. It is time for an approach rooted in public health rather than criminal justice. Español
"The liberators are imprisoned in their vision of liberation, trapped between a failed present and a future that is yet to be born"
