"The recent success of campaigns, such as Trump and Brexit, should compel us to make a critical analysis of the way modern democracies conduct elections."
Polish sociologist Slawomir Sierakowski discusses the "Trumpification" of Europe and what the US election means for Russia, the Baltic States and Poland.
By normalising the use of drones, the US might be planting a seed that people in the Arab world reject: the seed of arbitrariness.
Trump offered white voters the illusion they could prosper. We have to offer all our people a way to move forward together and save the planet.
While the results of the US election should be respected, Democrats (and liberals everywhere) must rapidly begin organizing to push back. There is simply too much at stake.
Attacking your opponent is one thing during the campaign, but attacking entire groups has far-reaching effects that do not get ‘deleted’ so quickly.
“Almost no one remembers Anytus today and the same thing will happen to you.”
How did we get here? What’s clear is that, in a 50-50 election, little things mean a lot.
This land is Hisland: the role of sexism in the US elections.
Both parties are to blame and it has cost all of us a republic.
The Trump victory is not the rejection of neoliberalism but the necessary outcome of the neoliberal transformation, and all its destructive excesses.
Given a winner-takes-all political system in a world divided so evenly, splitting the vote on the left will always mean that the right wins elections.
