Jan 14, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Spyros A. Sofos “We need to fight precarity now and to ensure that, in the process, we retain and enhance the best of our representative institutions.” Back in July 2018, when the idea that led to the birth of the #rethinkingPopulism project was being...
Dec 17, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Stephen F. Jones “Recent elections in Georgia and the US show that elections alone are poor indicators of democracy, and need to be supplemented with other methods of economic and political empowerment.” Elections are never enough to maintain a healthy...
Dec 2, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
Quality journalism has long sat at the heart of the democratic process â with a commitment to uncover the facts, and hold the powerful to account. Yet in a society increasingly plagued by misinformation and conspiracy theories, public trust in news organisations is...
Oct 13, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society, Referee
By Ogonna Nweke Despite criticism, sports players have used their role and the unique platform of sports to highlight and drive change, from the Springbok tour of New Zealand to the kneeling that Colin Kaepernick did in 2016. âShut up and dribble,â[1] said Laura...
Sep 22, 2020 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
The âGreat Lockdownâ has been described as the worst recession since the Great Depression and certainly is much worse than the Global Financial Crisis. Most countries around the world will have largely emptied their coffers, and borrowed heavily, to fund strategies to...
Aug 18, 2020 | Politics & Society
Social media has become a key feature in politics and communication and will likely play a significant role in the 2020 US election. The Trump administration has threatened sanctions against social media sites TikTok and WeChat, a move which...
Aug 17, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Ian Scoones & Andrew Stirling Governments havenât found the magic formula for predicting the way people and diseases will interact with each other. Are you getting used to uncertainty? The feeling that things are uncertain â in financial markets, cities, the...
Jul 7, 2020 | Politics & Society, Referee
By Jihoon Sung “Despite all the debates and discussions, the pandemic continues to ravage humanity and the fake news phenomenon continues to deceive some people.” On May 3, 2020, the world marked the World Press Freedom Day, paying tribute to journalists...
Jul 1, 2020 | Politics & Society
The world is facing multiple crises from climate change to institutional racism to COVOD-19. Maria Armoudian speaks to three preeminent scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, and psychology about the crossroads we are facing as a global community and...
Jun 30, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Ben Goldson Although both sides would deny it, the spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the weaknesses of two systems of governance as represented by the Peopleâs Republic of China (PRC) and the United States of America. Having emerged, by most accounts, in the city...