By Adam Gopnik* – The New Yorker The West’s favored form of self-government is looking creaky. A legal scholar and a philosopher propose some alternatives “Democracy is the worst form of government,” Churchill is said to have said, “except all those other forms that have been…
Fanjul – El País in english, Spain The political scientist, who at the beginning of the 1990s declared ‘the end of history,’ returns with a new book where he identifies the threats to classical liberalism: runaway capitalism and too much identity politics Francis Fukuyama…
By Baher Kamal* MADRID, Sep 7 2022 (IPS) – More than two-thirds of 10-year-olds are unable to read and understand a simple text. This shocking finding should be enough to be alarmed about the horrifying fate of an entire generation. But there is much more.
By Lucrezia Reichlin* – Project Syndicate The key to the success of Europe’s two big political families, Christian democrats and democratic socialists, has been their well-developed political and ethical cultures. The Brothers of Italy, which will most likely lead the country’s…
Jake Johnson* – Common Dreams/Truthout Trailing badly in the polls with the presidential election less than a month away, far-right Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro is attempting to galvanize his supporters with incendiary rhetoric and lies about the integrity of the vote —…
By Daniel Lehewych* , Freelance Writer – Newsweek In criticizing hyperpartisanship in general—neither specifically targeting the left nor the right—one readily finds visceral accusations of seeing the far-left and far-right as “equally bad.” By such reflexive standards, this…
By Baher Kamal* Over one year after the Taliban takeover, an estimated 24.4 million people – 59 per cent of the population in Afghanistan – are dependent on international aid and emergency relief in their day-to-day lives. MADRID, Sep 6 2022 (IPS) – Both mainstream media…
By Amy Goodman (*) – Democracy Now! Jeffrey Sachs: “Dangerous” U.S.
Times Now of India Exclusive That would have been among world’s most progressive charters? A lesson for all democracies Chilean voters have overwhelmingly rejected a new constitution — hailed one of the most democratic documents in the world — which was meant to have ushered…
By ROBERTO SAVIO* – MEER Bidding a farewell to the last leader of the USSR With the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last great statesman, and an entire epoch, disappears. I had the privilege of working with him, as deputy director of the World Political Forum, which Gorbi had…
