Ari Paul / 08 Sep 2026
Woke DEI Is Bad—Except When It Comes to Antisemitism
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
Break out the kosher wine and cue the klezmer. Apparently, we Jews are getting a new holiday.(...)
Politics
Josh White / 07 Sep 2026
Participatory Public Interest Journalism
The Ferret Rewrites the Rulebook
Scottish news site The Ferret is showing how to build an alternative platform for investigative reporting without billionaire backing and establishment patronage.(...)
John Foster / 05 Sep 2026
The Long Road to Irish Reunification
Brown Says What Burnham Won’t
Will Ireland ever be reunited?(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 04 Sep 2026
Iceland’s Vote, Britain’s Mirror
Lessons for a Post-Brexit Nation
Ten years after Brexit, the UK remains institutionally adrift.(...)
Ari Paul / 02 Sep 2026
Serbia and Israel’s Alliance is Even Worse Than it Looks
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
The world once knew what to do with perpetrators of genocide.(...)
Joel Schalit / 19 Aug 2026
Good News From The Battleground
Letter From the Editor
It wasn’t supposed to go this well. As July drew to a close, The Battleground recorded its highest monthly readership ever.(...)
John Foster / 14 Aug 2026
How Migration Became Meloni’s Undoing
Racism, Populism and the Politics of Blame
Giorgia Meloni's attempt to score political points at Pedro Sánchez’s expense has backfired spectacularly.(...)
John Foster / 07 Aug 2026
Far-Right Identity Politics
Why the Left Failed
Why do societies that remain wealthy, educated, and formally democratic struggle to produce citizens who believe in democracy?(...)
Ceuta Shattered the EU Dream
Euroscepticism in an Age of Fascist Creep