John Foster / 31 Jul 2020
Dreams of Dictatorship
Trump From Abroad
On Thursday, Donald Trump called for America’s November election to be postponed. This has been expected for some time.(...)
China
John Foster / 15 Jun 2020
American Killing Fields
Vincent Bevins’ The Jakarta Method
The short twentieth century, running from 1914 to 1989 is generally divided into two halves. The first, ending 1945, is the era of mass slaughter. (...)
Josh White / 01 Jun 2020
Far-Right Fantasy Life
Coronavirus and Conspiracy Theory
Setting fire to the 5G mast, the perpetrator clearly thought they had achieved something worthy of recording and posting online. The world had to know that 5G was a danger to the survival of humankind and how best to deal with that threat.(...)
Ernst Stetter / 29 May 2020
Beijing on the Brink
Xi Jinping’s Globalisation Gamble
The orchestration of Chinese politics by the Communist Party continues. But this year, the National People’s Party Congress was different.(...)
Ernst Stetter / 06 May 2020
Coronavirus vs. the Environment
The European Green Deal
We shouldn’t have had to go through it. But the Coronavirus crisis has taught us some hard lessons. Most importantly, that globalisation, as it works today, is a failure. (...)
Ernst Stetter / 03 Apr 2020
Collective Resilience
Lessons From the Coronavirus Crisis
The end of the tunnel is nowhere in sight. Coronavirus continues to infect the globe. (...)
Basilio Korman / 20 Mar 2020
Survival in Turin
Life Under Lockdown
I’m in the second week of self-imposed Coronavirus isolation, and the fourth day of the nationwide lockdown mandated by the Italian government to stop - or at least slow - the epidemic. (...)
Josh White / 16 Mar 2020
Follow the Herd
Tory Social Darwinism
The UK stands out for its eccentric response to the Coronavirus outbreak. (...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Feb 2020
Coronavirus as Politics
The Populist Disease
Every disaster has a silver lining. You just have to be heartless enough to exploit it.(...)
Heather McRobie / 14 Oct 2019
Taking Greenland Seriously
It’s Not About America
Greenland briefly bubbled up into the global consciousness this summer when Donald Trump’s offer to purchase the country was quickly dismissed as “absurd” by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. (...)