Elections in Romania from a Polish Perspective
Claudia Ciobanu analyzes the parallels between the recent elections in Romania and the Polish political scene.
Dialogue
Before Gezi there was Emek: The demolished heart of Turkish cinema
The opening ceremony of Which Human Rights Film Festival was a tribute to Istanbul’s iconic Emek Cinema, demolished in 2013 to make place for a shopping mall.
Make Facebook great again!
Facebook has become a political debating platform, but it lacks tools to facilitate true political discussions. Why Facebook’s Newsfeed needs a radical rethink.
Viktor Orbán turns Hungary into a tax haven
The government has announced an economic package to deal with the country’s acutely low wages or, more likely, to profit multinationals and keep Orbán in power.
Trump’s White House and Paris Climate Agreement: Is Europe up for the challenge?
The election victory of Donald Trump can paralyse global climate and sustainable development policy for years. But it is not just for to the US to decide whether it actually comes to this.
‘It’s gonna be great fun!’ Politics in the age of post-truth
If you’ve ever wondered what post-postmodernism might look like, 2016 gives you a pretty damn good idea.
An open letter to my immigrant father who voted for Trump
You are Jewish and you are an immigrant and you have an accent and they will never accept you. You will never be one of them.
President Voldemort: This is not over
Around 57 million Americans expected to see Hillary Clinton shatter the glass ceiling. We’ve been fooling ourselves by thinking we’ve all come further than we have.
The unaccountability at the very top
The former Portuguese PM and European Commission President, José Manuel Durão Barroso, emerges as an accomplice of the great atrocities of the war in Iraq and its lingering consequences.
