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20 Feb 2023 5 minute read

We don’t just need solutions – we need the courage to imagine they will succeed. Conrad Landin makes the case...

20 Feb 2023 10 minute read

Could a Kenyan court case point the way towards a more just tax system? Amy Hall investigates.

27 Oct 2022 2 minute read

Authoritarians have been embraced in a country where public opinion is in favour of democracy. Leonardo Sakamoto...

3 May 2022 23 minute read

Our deep desire for change is continually thwarted by the limiting political choices on offer. Political theorist and...

11 Mar 2022 4 minute read

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The Bulgarian journalist is director of the Balkan Free Media Initiative, created in April 2021 to monitor and campaign for...

1 Dec 2021 4 minute read

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A decade on from the revolution, and after a succession of chaotic governments, is democracy teetering in Tunisia, asks...

6 Apr 2021 6 minute read

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It twists and corrupts democracy in hidden ways. Peter Geoghegan explores the murky world of think tanks...

4 Mar 2021 7 minute read

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A kickstart for a habitable future. Claire Mellier and Rich Wilson make the case for ...

18 Feb 2021 15 minute read

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Unloved and under threat from several sides, democracy seems to be in peril. Should it be saved – or helped to change?...

10 Sep 2019 5 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

Bennett Murray speaks to Avery Ng, the leader of Hong Kong’s most leftwing party within...

14 Dec 2019 8 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

Citizens’ Assemblies are being promoted as the preferred democratic tool of a new generation of activists, Brett...