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Europe & Central Asia

Ukraine Is Reclaiming Land and Tracking Down Collaborators

In places regained by the Ukrainian army, police units look for saboteurs and collaborators, search for abandoned weapons and clear roads

May 9, 2023 • by Paweł Pieniążek

The village was occupied by the Russian army in March and was under their control until recently. ...

Ukraine Is Reclaiming Land and Tracking Down Collaborators

Activism

Atlanta’s Haunted Forest

Reckoning with a city’s settler colonial and racist legacies

May 3, 2023 • by Juliana Jones-Beaton

Atlanta is built on cycles of violence, and it is the permeating violence of convict labor, slavery, and settler colonialism that has led us here....

Democracy

Putin’s Atom

An excerpt from Paul Josephson’s Nuclear Russia

April 26, 2023 • by Paul Josephson

The concept of preempting an enemy’s nuclear weapons that was a central point of Soviet military thought has been reiterated by President Vladimir Putin....

Nuclear Russia and Its Enemies

Paul Josephson on the Russian peaceful—and not-so-peaceful—atom

April 26, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert and Paul Josephson

In an interview with Anastasia Shteinert, author Paul Josephson his new book "Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture."...

Politics

Science Under Stress, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

April 20, 2023 • by Social Research

Social Research introduces its 2023 spring edition: "Science Under Stress."...

Science Under Stress, the New Issue of <em>Social Research</em>

Democracy

Are Universities Bad for Democracy?

We need a revolution, not only against how we train students to think but also, “more importantly, against what we, as humans, ultimately are.”

April 12, 2023 • by Benjamin P. Davis

Business schools obviously train students to see the world in terms of commodities. But what about the rest of the university? ...

Democracy

Anthropocentrism and Democracy in Planetary Times

It is time to rethink political regimes in non-anthropocentric terms

April 12, 2023 • by Rafi Youatt

The way forward for our planet and democracy are to acknowledge nature’s own, different political modalities, by recognizing what I’ve elsewhere called interspecies politics. ...

Democracy

People Power?

The phrase “liberal democracy” has degenerated into an ideological cliché

April 12, 2023 • by John Keane

Democracy is not an all-knowing and arrogant Ideology. It is its antidote. ...

Democracy

Bloodless Democracy?

A response to John Keane

April 11, 2023 • by James Miller

Does democracy offer any kind of solution, however partial, to ecological challenges that are inherently global, not just national, never mind local?...