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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionCOVID-19 has made the super-rich richer. It’s time for a billionaire wealth taxThe US’s billionaires have amassed democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power as millions have been...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisJoe Biden steps into a high-wire dance with Iran hardliners over nuclear dealThe US is trying to salvage the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action before Iranian President Rouhani leaves office in...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRemembering W.E.B. Du Bois: a giant in the struggle for Black freedom in the USAs America faces a period of renewed racial and political polarization, Du Bois’s vision for building a multi-racial...
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Published in: Home: OpinionKamala Harris, Angela Davis, and the US's failed revolutionIf the pandemic could be seen as our Reichstag Fire moment, then the attacks on the Capitol on 6 January 2021 might...
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Published in: ourEconomy: FeatureSix ways Donald Trump can still be brought to justiceThe impeachment trial may have failed, but the former president has multiple legal battles ahead of him
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: FeatureGlobal white supremacy cult: How the South African radical Right bolsters US extremismSome radical right-wing South African groups have travelled to the US in efforts to expand their organisational networks
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionTrump’s allies threaten rights globally – US impeachment won’t change thatThe ultra-conservative networks that supported Trump are playing long games with global ambitions. Their threat to...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe GameStop frenzy shows why we can’t let casino capitalism drive the COVID recoveryIt’s time to call the speculation that powered the GameStop surge what it really is: socially useless gambling that...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: FeatureThe Nazi Satanists promoting extreme violence and terrorismThere are fears that racist occultist groups, such as the Order of Nine Angles, are moving from online recruiting to...
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Published in: Home: OpinionTrump’s election didn’t cause the GameStop surge. They are symptoms of the same problemBoth Trump voters and Redditors saw a chance to fight back against a system they believe is rigged against them.
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Published in: Home: OpinionGodfrey Hodgson: a legendary author who predicted America’s unravellingHodgson, who died aged 86, provided a stellar canon of articles for openDemocracy that unveil the path to Trumpism.
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghanistan, North Korea – and Tunisia: a security briefing for Joe BidenBiden’s first executive orders have done a lot, but he can’t order away all Trump’s cack-handed legacy – or silence...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe age of Trump is over. Now the US must tackle its polarisationIn the past 20 years, hostility – fomented in a dislike and distrust of different groups – has dramatically...
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Published in: 50.50Farewell to the Alt-Facts Republic: the Trump administration obituaryThe Twitter-obsessed, twice-impeached Trump administration has died, age four – but the polarisation it fed off, and...
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Published in: HomeTrump’s legacy isn’t just violence and QAnon. It’s a broken information systemTalking to voters across the US, from gentle MAGA moms to armed militias, it’s clear why Trumpism has taken a deep...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe far right’s rise within armed forces is a global threat to democracyThe suspected involvement of soldiers and police in the US Capitol riots echoes infiltration moves by extremists in Europe.
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationRevealed: US Capitol protesters are still fundraising via Amazon and PayPalTech giants are under pressure to ‘sever all ties to hate groups and white supremacists’.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThis is American fascismLike Mussolini’s March on Rome and Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, Donald Trump’s Insurrection is the beginning of years...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy is discrimination against American Roma ignored?A community of one million people has been left out of the US’s belated national reckoning with racism. It’s time to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe good, the bad, and the ugly of the US Capitol insurrectionThe scenes of the insurrection in the United States Capitol last Wednesday, January 6, will go down in history as...
