We might end up with a Trump presidency that has polarizing effects domestically and depolarizing effects internationally. Espanol.
The descent into complex post-factual politics goes some way to showing why Brexit and Trump were so successful, and their opposition so ineffective.
The Chair of the African Union Commission, has rightly noted, "The country to which many of our people were taken as slaves decides to ban refugees from some of our countries".
The “post-truth” issue is intimately tied to the ability of powerful people to fabricate victimhood.
Human rights defenders are out in the cold at this moment: we have compromised allies on the left and the right.
Days after the inauguration of Donald Trump, the rhetoric around his presidency on the left remains mostly unchanged: a mix of incredulity and rage, laced with apocalyptic fret.
When civic space is under attack, we make no dangerous accommodations. We stand up, and we fight back.
Will women be turned away from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March, in New York? The world's global institutions must fight the 'Muslim Ban', starting with the United Nations.
The years since 9/11 have cast a dark shadow over global politics in many respects. But we have the option of recalling where the pursuit of authoritarianism leads.
The same strategies used against women for decades by the Christian right and the anti-abortion movement are now, under Donald Trump's presidency, being turned on the American people as a whole.
Both the administrative pillar of resistance and the ‘Indivisible’ legislative pillar will be bolstered if linked to a grassroots strategy of cross-issue mobilizing and direct action – the core strategy.
Trump is a symptom of a reactionary response triggered when the problems requiring systemic transformation are blamed solely on the political establishment.
