Analysis

Who and what gets to move through border spaces, and how does the business of securing Europe’s borders affect us all? Derek Sherrange spent three days moving between two countries and two continents to dig into these questions.

Two words, Anger and Hope, chosen for two mobilizations held on the same day, against the same government, say a great deal about a tension running through the Argentine left. What should be done with the dissatisfaction that exists now? Marcela Gottschald reports from Buenos Aires.

Listening to the voices of the people who are at the center of global migration flows, says Collins, is necessary in order to get to the most urgent question: why do we allow this system of global apartheid to continue?

Cities and communities cannot wait for Europe to resolve its endless arguments about migration, deterrence and responsibility sharing, writes Dr. Myriam Cherti for openDemocracy.

In the third and final installment of her mini-series, Defending the Defenders: The Global Rise of Legalized Repression, Gaia Guatri examines how civil society actors around the world are adapting to the changing structures of repression around them.

Steve Peraza examines ongoing tensions driven by the entry of private equity into the NY state home care system - and opportunities for care workers and consumers to make common cause.

Who says journalists must be neutral in a cynically constructed “debate” that serves the interest of a colonial power? A question from 2011 continues to resonate today.

In the second installment of her mini-series, Defending the Defenders: The Global Rise of Legalized Repression, Gaia Guatri explores how states and other powerful actors are increasingly constraining the work of journalism through law, violence, and intimidation.

Mathani Ahmed writes for the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN): In fragile, conflict-ridden states like Sudan, environmental harm is a byproduct of the economic strategies. When companies or state-linked entities avoid the high costs of treating industrial pollution or waste, their saved money eventually acts as an unreported subsidy that journalists can trace to understand why pollution is permitted to continue.

In the first installment of her mini-series, Defending the Defenders: The Global Rise of Legalized Repression, Gaia Guatri examines how repression is evolving to encompass lawfare, judicial harassment, detention, and other forms of “legal containment.”

In January 2026, a flagship report by UN researchers disclosed that the world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’. Mariam Waqar Khattak analyzes the implications.

The framework of food sovereignty remains a powerful alternative to an agribusiness food system that is fueling the climate crisis, writes Adam Termote.

John Collins surveys some of the key perspectives within an ongoing dialogue about the present and future of Spain’s perpetually fragmented Left. Is a change on the horizon?

The “newspaper of record’ misses a golden opportunity to explain the material connections between violence “there” and violence “here.”

The common message of “we are all to blame, we all have to do our part” serves to shield the global elite from responsibility for the current crisis, writes Fernando Luengo.

In a Q&A recently conducted on Facebook, the widely cited author of We Created Chávez argues that the US attack “was never about democracy or drugs” and that “revolution is a process - always.”

On the latest phase in the weaponization of social media and LLMs.

How low-income women profit in the Urban Kilimanjaro region

Denise Brennan writes for openDemocracy

What kind of future is being constructed in our name? And who profits from its manufactured inevitability?

In Buffalo, housing is public health, writes Steve Peraza.

Nolan Higdon and Sydney Sullivan write for Project Censored

Can we still choose what we pay attention to, or is that being chosen for us?

In Myanmar, the search for rare earth minerals is a tangle of militarization, environmental damage, and resistance.

For journalists who work outside corporate paradigms and who often elevate underrepresented voices and challenge dominant narratives, the integration of AI raises urgent questions about editorial autonomy, authorship, and the risk of ideological conformity.

Vienna, Austria, is the site of what is viewed internationally as the most successful model of social housing development since the early twentieth century.

Trump is pushing a new artificial intelligence-driven bureaucracy to gut public services and use our data to exploit us, writes Ulises A. Mejias for Truthout.

For the past few months, the world has been watching mass protests unfold in Georgia. These actions represent more than just opposition to the current government; they also reflect a deeper struggle over the country’s future. Caught between European integration and growing Russian influence, Georgians continue to push back against years of Kremlin-led democratic erosion. Their fight extends beyond Russia, shaping Georgia’s place in a shifting global order where the European Union (EU), the United States, and China also hold powerful influence.

In this piece for Turning Point magazine, Gaia Guatri and Shekufe Ranjbar explore the ongoing struggles of Iranian women in the years since the start of the 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement and the subsequent wave of state repression.

According to the Real Academia Española, a euphemism is defined as a word or expression used in place of one that is harsh, unpleasant, or rude. Euphemisms are more and more rampant in political and economic debates (which is a way of describing what is often mere propaganda). The citizenry, passive and defenseless spectators, summoned only when there are elections and in the face of the enormous power of the mass media and social media, swallow them one after another, incorporating them into our everyday language as if they were undeniable truths.