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Can you change the world from your living room?
Americans with different political views may yell at each other but they rarely talk or listen. It’s time to revitalize a different form of political conversation. This is the third article in our...
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Kabul: the humanitarian city
Initially mandated to protect and assist, the humanitarian project in Kabul has assumed the role of governor and significantly reshaped the city over the past decade. In the absence of democratic...
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Egypt in the balance: what the blogs are saying 8 - 14 November
This 'You tell us' feature offers some first hand accounts and a range of opinions in blogs, articles and tweets, first and foremost from the people of Egypt.November 8Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmy,...
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Life measured in cats
Our Sunday Comics author describes the felines who have shared his and New Orleans upheavals and adventures in the past thirty years Cats came and went in the first third of my life much like...
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The BBC has to learn to listen to itself
The new Director General wants to overhaul the BBC's corporate culture. This doesn't need management reform or expensive consultants, says Nick Fraser. It just needs the BBC to get better at listening,...
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Human rights: the global expansion
Southern populations and activists don’t need leadership from northern human rights organizations. Instead, northern groups should support the most deprived southern populations in their own efforts to...
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Gender and development debates: overlooking diversity
Twenty five years after Gita Sen and Caren Grown made an appeal for development practitioners to use the diversity of feminisms as a starting point to work towards achieving more just societies,...
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Bankrupting democracy
Michigan’s political elite is pushing the city of Detroit—wellspring of industrial unionism, home of soul music—into bankruptcy. In the words of Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on?”The city of Detroit -...
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Emerging ‘Unipolarity’ in Turkey’s political landscape
The issues change almost on a weekly basis, but the problem only becomes worse - the AKP’s slide into the grey area between majoritarian democracy and authoritarianism.People watch fireworks on 90th...
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Is a green energy revolution on the global agenda?
Climate rebellion is on the horizon. At the same time, governments globally, with rare exceptions, are deeply wedded to existing energy policies and will respond with some combination of accommodation...
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Out of the press box and onto the field
I am a player in NewCo. I have to publicly abandon any position as an observer or independent analyst of Pierre Omidyar’s new venture in news. Out of the press box and onto the field.I have a personal...
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Qatar in change
The young Emir presides over a bustling city that grows with each passing day, it must be fed, housed and paid for. Growing pains are everywhere, and the spotlight shines fiercely on Doha and the way...
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Georgia through a glass, darkly
Since the break-up of the USSR, the South Caucasus has trodden a chequered path, both political and economic. Is democracy really what the people want? Or just what Western donors and investors think...
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An academy for global civics
In order to navigate our increasing interdependence, we need a mental map to help us decide what sort of a rapport we wish to have with billions of others with whom we share our planet and destinies,...
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Beware, secret trade deals can seriously damage your health
Freedom of Information requests to disclose TPP texts have failed on the grounds that they are a matter of “national security”.If I asked you to name some of the current threats to your health,...
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NHS charges - the Zombie policies walking into Downing Street?
Reform - the think tank that provided David Cameron with his lead health advisor - is trying to resuscitate discredited policies on NHS charging in England and introduce some dangerous new ideas to...
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G4S and Serco overcharging scandal just got worse
Two outsourcing giants who tagged and monitored ex-offenders charged British taxpayers tens of millions of pounds for doing nothing. A new report reveals flagrant and systematic abuses, ahead of...
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It's time to get the “national interest” out of the UK's European debate
As long as the British debate about the EU is framed only in terms of the "national interest", a meaningful and nuanced discussion will be impossible. Stop using the term, “national...
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Slow democracy
At a time when 95 per cent of Americans disapprove of their own Congress, what hope is there for democracy in the USA? Plenty, if democracy itself can be transformed. This is the fourth article in our...
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Speaking with an elite accent: human rights and the "masses"
Does the human rights movement's effectiveness hinge upon the trust and diffuse support of ordinary citizens? Not necessarily. Well-crafted, elite-level strategies can help NGOs effectively promote...
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